Glires

See also: glires

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin glīrēs, plural form of glīs (“dormouse”). Coined by biologist Carl von Linné.

Proper noun

Glires

1. A taxonomic grandorder within the class Mammalia – A clade uniting the orders Rodentia and Lagomorpha.
2. (archaic) A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – rodents and rabbit-like animals. [from c. 1860]
3. (obsolete) A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – corresponding to Rodentia, plus Noctilio. [c. 1900]

Hypernyms

• (clade): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Boreoeutheria - magnorder; Euarchontoglires - superorder; Gliriformes - clade (or grandorder)

Related terms

• Euarchontoglires
• gliran (English)
• gliriform (English)
• Gliriformes
• Glirina
• glirine (English)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Glires”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Glires on Wikipedia.Wikipedia