animal kingdom

1. 1.

   taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

   SynonymsAnimaliakingdom Animalia

   Broaderkingdom

Questions about animal kingdom

What does animal kingdom mean?

animal kingdom means "taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals".

What is another word for animal kingdom?

Close synonyms include Animalia, kingdom Animalia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is animal kingdom a common word?

animal kingdom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.