Translingual

Proper noun

Glires

1. A taxonomic clade within the superorder Euarchontoglires – rodents, rabbits, hares, and pikas. [from c. 2000]
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): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria, Placentalia - cohorts; Boreoeutheria - magnorder; Euarchontoglires - superorder; Gliriformes - clade (or grandorder)

Hyponyms

• (clade): Lagomorpha, Rodentia - orders

Related terms

• Euarchontoglires
• gliran
• gliriform
• Gliriformes
• Glirina
• glirine

External links

• Glires in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Glires on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Noun

glīrēs

1. nominative plural of glīs
2. accusative plural of glīs
3. vocative plural of glīs