Meanings
nounsublegion (plural sublegions)
plural sublegions
- biologyA subdivision of a legion.
The Legion of the United States was to consist of four sublegions of 1,280 men each, commanded by brigadier generals.
1967, Russell Frank Weigley, History of the United States Army, page 921 more example
Proposed as sublegion; ranked as infralegion by Chow & Rich, 1982:129; changed to rank of order by McKenna, in Stucky & McKenna, in Benton, ed., 1993:742.
1997, Malcolm C. McKenna, Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level
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