Etymology

subphylum

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Today it means: A taxonomic category below phylum and above class Full definition →

English phylum ← Latin sub-
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The story

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Englishphylum
  5. English todaysubphylum

From sub- + phylum.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.