subkingdom
One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoology, the vertebrata, tunicata, mollusca, articulata, molluscoidea, echinodermata, Coelentera, and the protozoa; in botany, the phanerogamia, and the cryptogamia.
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