subphylum

English Thesaurus

1. (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and a class (noun.group)

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

member meronym	:	phylum,
definition	:	(biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes (noun.group)

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