Definition of division

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Division (n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

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Macrochires :: Macrochires (n. pl.) A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.
Ensign :: Ensign (n.) A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like..
Battle :: Battle (v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
Laemodipoda :: Laemodipoda (n. pl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples..
Procoelia :: Procoelia (n. pl.) A division of Crocodilia, including the true crocodiles and alligators, in which the dorsal vertebrae are concave in front..
Rhizophaga :: Rhizophaga (n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.
Protozoa :: Protozoa (n. pl.) The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.
Geography :: Geography (n.) The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited..
Taxonomy :: Taxonomy (n.) That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.
Thallogen :: Thallogen (n.) One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf..
Ophthalmic :: Ophthalmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead..
Sporocyst :: Sporocyst (n.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia..
Duan :: Duan (n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.
Subordinacy :: Suborder (n.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae..
Holostei :: Holostei (n. pl.) An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix..
Link :: Link (n.) A single ring or division of a chain.
Branch :: Branch (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway..
Arrondissement :: Arrondissement (n.) A subdivision of a department.
Desmomyaria :: Desmomyaria (n. pl.) The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa.
Deduplication :: Deduplication (n.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster..
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