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subkingdom is a common noun.  Its 3 syllables, sub king dom, are pronounced SUB  KING dom.  The only definition is:  A primary division of the animal or the vegetable kingdom.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary

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Associations with subkingdom, Definition 1, are:

primary as an adjective.  Definition 1 of 6 is:  First in origin, time, thought, or intention; original; radical; primitive.  Definition 2 is:  First in degree, rank, or importance; fundamental; chief.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary

division is a noun.  Definition 1 of 9 is:  The act of dividing.  Definition 2 is:  A part; section.  Definition 3 is:  Separation; disagreement.  Definition 4 is:  That which separates, divides, or makes different.  Definition 9, in biology is:  A group of species with common characters forming part of a larger group, as of a class, et cetera,:  as generally used of no definite rank in botany or zoology.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary

animal as a noun.  Definition 1 of 4 is:  A sentient living organism other than a plant.  Definition 2 is:  A sentient creature inferior to man; a brute.  Definition 4, in the plural, animals, colloquially is:  Domesticated quadrupeds.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary

vegetable as a noun.  Definition 2 of 2 is:  In the scientific sense, a plant of any kind.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary

kingdom is a noun.  Definition 4 of 5, in Natural History is:  One of the three primary divisions of natural objects known as the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary

Metazoa Parazoa, higher animals, sponges.

Metazoa Metazoa, higher animals, other than sponges.

Protista Protophyta, the group of unicellular animals and plants.  Source:  A modification from the Practical Standard Dictionary. Including:  algae, slime molds, lichens, water molds, sac fungi (yeasts, many bread molds, powdery mildews, morels, cup fungi, truffles, most lichen fungi, and others), club fungi (jelly fungi, smuts, rusts, mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, earth stars, bird's-nest fungi and others).  Source:  An excerpt from the Encyclopædia Britannica

Protista Protozoa is a noun, plural.  The only definition, in Zoology is:   A primary division of the animal kingdom, variously ranked and limited, embracing organisms consisting of a single cell or group of cells not separable into different tissues.  They are found in the ocean and stagnant fresh water.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary


The singular possessive of subkingdom is:  subkingdom's.  The plural of subkingdom is:  subkingdoms.  The plural possessive of subkingdoms is:  subkingdoms'.

This link will be to subkingdom synonyms, antonyms and etymology.

Within the hierarchical structure, there are 4 subkingdom paths:

  1. This link will be to (Metazoa) Parazoa
  2. This link will be to (Metazoa) Metazoa
  3. This link will be to (Protista) Protophyta
  4. This link will be to (Protista) Protozoa

Within the hierarchical structure, there are 9 division paths:

  1. This link will be to (Monera Division) Schizophyta
  2. This link will be to (Monera Division) Cyanophyta
  3. This link will be to (Plantae Division) Bryophyta
  4. This link will be to (Plantae Division) Psilotophyta
  5. This link will be to (Plantae Division) Lycopodiophyta
  6. This link will be to (Plantae Division) Equisetophyta
  7. This link will be to (Plantae Division) Polypodiophyta
  8. This link will be to (Plantae Division) Pinophyta
  9. This link will be to (Plantae Division) Magnoliophyta

Within the hierarchical structure, there are 2 upward paths:

  1. This link will be to (Kingdom) Protista
  2. This link will be to (Kingdom) Metazoa

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