[SUB- 7 b.] One of the primary groups into which the animal and vegetable kingdoms are divided.
1825. W. S. Macleay, Annulosa Javan., 5. If we … descend from the consideration of the kingdom Animalia to the department or sub-kingdom Annulosa.
1851. Carpenter, Man. Phys. (ed. 2), 131. These Red Corpuscles can scarcely be said to exist in the blood of Invertebrated animals, and their proportion in the blood of Vertebrata varies considerably in the several groups of that sub-kingdom.
1870. H. A. Nicholson, Man. Zool. (1875), 16. The six types or plans of structure, upon one or other of which all known animals have been constructed, are technically called ‘sub-kingdoms,’ and are known by the names Protozoa, Cœlenterata, Annuloida, Annulosa, Mollusca, and Vertebrata.
1877. Dawson, Orig. World, x. 213. The three Cuvierian sub-kingdoms of the Radiata, Articulata, and Mollusca.
1900. B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, Subkingdom, the main division of a kingdom, a primary botanic division, as Phanerogams and Cryptogams.
