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extraordinal

extraordinal adjective: from another taxonomic order.

Adjective

extraordinal (not comparable)

  1. From another taxonomic order
    • The much larger R values for ANOSIM between 2011 and pre-tsunami years (2005 to 2008) suggest that tsunami-induced changes in macrozoobenthic community structure were extraordinal.2015 August 5, “Impacts of the 2011 Tsunami on Sediment Characteristics and Macrozoobenthic Assemblages in a Shallow Eutrophic Lagoon, Sendai Bay, Japan”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of extraordinal

From extra- + ordinal.

Questions about extraordinal

What does extraordinal mean?
Extraordinal means from another taxonomic order.
What part of speech is extraordinal?
Extraordinal is an adjective.

Words near extraordinal in the dictionary

  1. extraorally
  2. extraorbital
  3. extraorbitally
  4. extraordinaire
  5. extraordinaires
  6. extraordinal
  7. extraordinaries
  8. extraordinarily
  9. extraordinariness
  10. extraordinarinesses
  11. extraordinarity

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