suborder myxiniformes

Questions about suborder myxiniformes

What does suborder myxiniformes mean?

suborder myxiniformes means "hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys".

What is another word for suborder myxiniformes?

Close synonyms include Myxiniformes, Hyperotreta, suborder Hyperotreta, Myxinoidei, Myxinoidea. 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 suborder myxiniformes a common word?

suborder myxiniformes 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.