subkingdom

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group,
definition	:	animal or plant group having natural relations (noun.group)

hyponym	:	parazoa, subkingdom parazoa,
definition	:	multicellular organisms having less-specialized cells than in the Metazoa; comprises the single phylum Porifera (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	metazoa, subkingdom metazoa,
definition	:	multicellular animals having cells differentiated into tissues and organs and usually a digestive cavity and nervous system (noun.animal)

domain category	:	biological science, biology,
definition	:	the science that studies living organisms (noun.cognition)