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  • core (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
  • auction a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge
  • psychopath someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')
  • pike medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
  • sociopath someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')
  • marxism the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism
  • genus ceterach small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants of this genus in e.g. genera Asplenium and Pleurosorus
  • cyclosporeae in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales
  • phanerogamae in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta
  • chrysophyta mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta
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