SUBKINGDOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subkingdom mean? 

• SUBKINGDOM (noun)
  The noun SUBKINGDOM has 1 sense:

1. (biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom

  Familiarity information: SUBKINGDOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBKINGDOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("subkingdom" is a kind of...):

taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subkingdom"):

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

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