Definition of "superphylum" []

• A taxonomic category above phylum and below subkingdom (noun)

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• "Prospective examples include kernels common to all members of a given phylum or superphylum."
• "Mr. Jackson, in your next film, we beg you, earnestly beg you, do not include a single member of the superphylum Arthropoda."
• "Although they are present almost everywhere, on land and sea, a group of related bacteria in the superphylum Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae, or PVC, have remained in relative obscurity ever since they were first described about a decade ago."