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subkingdom

[ US /səbˈkɪŋdəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. (biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom

How To Use subkingdom In A Sentence

  • They are placed in their own subkingdom because they are so unlike any other animals.
  • All forms of animal life, from the coelenterates to the mammals, follow the same path in their embryological development as far as the gastrula stage, but here their paths widely diverge, those of each subkingdom going their own separate ways. The Elements of Geology
  • PROTOZOA, the blastosphere by some rare forms, and the gastrula in the essential structure of the COELENTERATES, -- the subkingdom to which the fresh-water hydra and the corals belong. The Elements of Geology
  • Maybe either the king came round on circuit or there was some system of delegates (maybe the thane(s)?) to a bigger kingdom- or subkingdom-sized moot? Why were folk-moots held outdoors?
  • This subkingdom comprises at present such familiar forms as the crinoid, the starfish, and the sea urchin. The Elements of Geology
  • Given this remarkable floristic endemism, New Caledonia is often considered a distinct floristic subkingdom. Biological diversity in New Caledonia
  • It is impossible to divide the first two subkingdoms according this principle and we can consider that there is only one type in each of them.
  • The communication between individuals is especially characteristic of vertebrates, and in the higher members of that subkingdom it plays The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance
  • This subkingdom includes two classes of interest to the geologist, -- the HYDROZOA, such as the fresh-water hydra and the jellyfish, and the CORALS. The Elements of Geology
  • The West Saxon kings used Kent as a sort of appanage to be ruled as subkingdoms by West Saxon princes.
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