Animal kingdom Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
kingdom Animalia; Animalia.
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Animal .
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- the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.
