ANIMAL KINGDOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal kingdom mean? 

• ANIMAL KINGDOM (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL KINGDOM has 1 sense:

1. taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL KINGDOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL KINGDOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia

Hypernyms ("animal kingdom" is a kind of...):

kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)

Meronyms (members of "animal kingdom"):

Nemertea; Nemertina; phylum Nemertea; phylum Nemertina (proboscis worms)

phylum Platyhelminthes; Platyhelminthes (flatworms)

phylum Pogonophora; Pogonophora (beard worms)

phylum Rotifera; Rotifera (a phylum including: rotifers)

Aschelminthes; Nematoda; phylum Aschelminthes; phylum Nematoda (unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms)

Annelida; phylum Annelida (segmented worms: earthworms; lugworms; leeches)

mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Mollusca; phylum Mollusca (gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons)

Phoronida; Phoronidea; phylum Phoronida (small phylum of wormlike marine animals)

Bryozoa; phylum Bryozoa; polyzoa (marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids)

Cycliophora; phylum Cycliophora (tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta)

Brachiopoda; phylum Brachiopoda (marine invertebrates that resemble mollusks)

phylum Sipuncula; Sipuncula (peanut worms)

echinoderm family (a family of echinoderms)

echinoderm genus (a genus of echinoderms)

Echinodermata; phylum Echinodermata (radially symmetrical marine invertebrates including e.g. starfish and sea urchins and sea cucumbers)

Metazoa; subkingdom Metazoa (multicellular animals having cells differentiated into tissues and organs and usually a digestive cavity and nervous system)

animal order (the order of animals)

Chordata; phylum Chordata (comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord)

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)

Parazoa; subkingdom Parazoa (multicellular organisms having less-specialized cells than in the Metazoa; comprises the single phylum Porifera)

coelenterate family (a family of coelenterates)

coelenterate genus (a genus of coelenterates)

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

ctenophore family (a family of ctenophores)

ctenophore genus (a genus of ctenophores)

Ctenophora; phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies; sea acorns; a small phylum formerly considered a class of Coelenterata)

worm family (a family of worms)

worm genus (a genus of worms)

Acanthocephala; phylum Acanthocephala (phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates: spiny-headed worms)

Chaetognatha; phylum Chaetognatha (arrowworms: a group of small active transparent marine worms)

 Context examples 

The research suggests that abnormal glutamate secretion may underlie repetitive behaviors across the animal kingdom — raising the possibility that it may be relevant to understanding pathological repetition in humans.

(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)

This is a unique case in the animal kingdom of a communication signal persisting even after the target audience has lost the ability to detect it.

(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There is mounting evidence that learning by observing others occurs throughout the animal kingdom.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)

Throughout the animal kingdom, being able to detect not only objects and events, but also the relations among them, is key to survival.

(Infants Are Able to Learn Abstract Rules Visually, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They have some of the most sophisticated behaviors in the animal kingdom: large, highly-developed brains capable of learning and problem-solving.

(First-ever octopus genome sequenced, NSF)

DNA transposable elements include bacterial IS (insertion sequence) elements, Tn elements, the maize controlling elements Ac and Ds, Drosophila P, gypsy, and pogo elements, the human Tigger elements and the Tc and mariner elements which are found throughout the animal kingdom.

(DNA Insertion Elements, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The relationship between growth rate and lifespan is analogous to the relationship between heart rate and lifespan seen in the animal kingdom: animals with quicker heart rates tend to grow faster but have shorter lives on average.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)