division
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- noun
- /dɪˈvɪʒən/
- Specialized
- In the context of plant taxonomy, a division represents a major grouping, like a phylum in animals.
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Examples
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Botanists classify plants into various categories, and one key group is called a division.
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The classification of flowering plants often includes several divisions based on their characteristics.
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What we can determine is that after this time, the first distinct divisions of animal and plant life appeared on the planet.
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And you could separate this into just a ton of plants, so long as each division had enough roots still attached.
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I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions.
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Those are the three very big divisions of the auditory periphery.
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First, find the dark Cassini Division, which separates the outer A ring from the brighter B ring.
Academic text (2007) -
In any case, district boundaries do not seem to coincide neatly with tribal divisions.
Academic text (1990) -
When did the carnivorans split into their catlike and doglike divisions?
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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A group of living things that scientists put together, like a species or family
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8.7
A large group of animals or plants with the same basic body structure
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A set of living things that are put together because they are related, for example lions and tigers
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A group of plants or animals put together because they share traits
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A rank in the classification of living things like species or family that shows how they are related
Compounds
- Jargon
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A group in the United States Air Force that has two or more wings and controls them
- Specialized
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A process in which a cell splits to make two or more new cells for growth and reproduction
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A region like a state or district that a government uses to run local services
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A way of sorting things into groups using two or more features at the same time
- Specialized
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Separating a word into parts when it breaks at the end of a line in writing
- Specialized
The part of a body of water that includes the sea floor and nearby shore areas
- Specialized
A group of mostly single-celled living things with cells that have a nucleus, like slime molds and some algae
- Archaic
A former group of plants like ferns that have tubes and make spores not seeds
- Specialized
A large group of red seaweeds that grow mainly in the sea near the shore
- Archaic
An old scientific name for blue-green algae now called cyanobacteria
- Archaic
A group of single-celled life forms different from bacteria and from animals and plants
- Specialized
A group of small plants that do not make flowers, like mosses, liverworts and hornworts
- Archaic
A group of mostly freshwater microscopic algae with yellow or brown color
- Archaic
A group of bacteria like blue-green algae that make food from sunlight and live in water and soil
- Archaic
A large group of single-celled living things that have rigid cell walls
- Specialized
A group of small, free-swimming algae that move with a tail and live in fresh water
- Specialized
A main group of fungi like mushrooms and molds that have cells with walls made of chitin
- Archaic
An old scientific group for organisms where a fungus lives with algae or blue-green bacteria
- Specialized
A group of brown seaweeds like kelp used in some biology classifications
A main United States Navy group that designs and tests aircraft and missiles
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A type of cell division that makes four sex cells, each with half the chromosomes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Division comes from the verb divide, meaning 'to separate into groups'. So in biology a plant division is a major group inside the plant kingdom made up of similar plants.