natural orders
- plural of natural order.
Example Sentences
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The most abundant natural orders are the following: Species.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel
So too were the three natural orders of men.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
Forbes, who visited these islands in 1878, increased the number of wild plants to thirty-six, and these belonged to twenty-six natural orders.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel
"Combining together these various indications, or sources of discrimination,—outward objects, diffusive mode or expression, inward consciousness, resulting conduct and institutions,—I adopt the following arrangement of the families or natural orders of emotion."
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
I knew nothing whatever as to genera and species, nor of the large number of distinct forms related to each and grouped into natural orders.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James
