suborder serpentes

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   snakes

   SynonymsSerpentesOphidiasuborder Ophidia

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofSquamata

Questions about suborder serpentes

What does suborder serpentes mean?

suborder serpentes means "snakes".

What is another word for suborder serpentes?

Close synonyms include Serpentes, Ophidia, suborder Ophidia. 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 serpentes a common word?

suborder serpentes 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.