order scandentia

1. 1.

   a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora)

   SynonymsScandentia

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofEutheria

Questions about order scandentia

What does order scandentia mean?

order scandentia means "a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora)".

What is another word for order scandentia?

Close synonyms include Scandentia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is order scandentia a common word?

order scandentia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.