sublegion

English

From sub- +‎ legion.

sublegion (plural sublegions)

(taxonomy, military) A subdivision of a legion.
- 1967, Russell Frank Weigley, History of the United States Army, page 92:
  The Legion of the United States was to consist of four sublegions of 1,280 men each, commanded by brigadier generals.
- 1997, Malcolm C. McKenna, Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level:
  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.