division
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- noun
- /dɪˈvɪʒən/
- Specialized
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división
- In the context of plant taxonomy, a division represents a major grouping, like a phylum in animals.
He says into these species, animal is marked off by division.
- He says into these species, animal is marked off by division.
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.
Fiction book (1999) -
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 large group of animals or plants with the same basic body structure
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A group of living things that scientists put together, like a species or family
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A set of living things that are put together because they are related, for example lions and tigers
A rank in the classification of living things like species or family that shows how they are related
A group of plants or animals put together because they share traits
Compounds
- 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
- 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
- Jargon
A group in the United States Air Force that has two or more wings and controls them
A main United States Navy group that designs and tests aircraft and missiles
- Specialized
A type of cell division that makes four sex cells, each with half the chromosomes
- Specialized
Separating a word into parts when it breaks at the end of a line in writing
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.