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Definition of Plant kingdom
1. Noun. (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants.
Member holonyms: Flora, Plant, Plant Life, Thallophyta, Division Tracheophyta, Tracheophyta, Plant Order, Bryophyta, Division Bryophyta, Division Pteridophyta, Pteridophyta, Division Spermatophyta, Spermatophyta, Phanerogamae, Cryptogamia, Plant Family, Plant Genus, Lycophyta
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Generic synonyms: Kingdom
Definition of Plant kingdom
1. Noun. Collectively, the set of all plants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plant Kingdom
Literary usage of Plant kingdom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"A. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE plant kingdom.' The record of plants in the early geological
ages is extremely imperfect. In the very earliest times the conditions ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"THE MOST PRIMITIVE LIVING REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ANCESTORS OF THE plant kingdom.
BY GEORGE T. MOORE, PH.D. (Read April 25, 1908.) There is but little doubt ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"A. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE plant kingdom.' The record of plants in the early geological
ages is extremely imperfect. In the very earliest times the conditions ..."
4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"The Development of Form in the plant kingdom The Thallus.—The simplest form that
we can imagine for an organism is that of a sphere, and this is actually ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"DISTRIBUTION OF STIPULES IN THE plant kingdom. It would carry me too far here to
give the story of the distribution of stipules in the different families, ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Such a synopsis, therefore, attempts to show an actual "blood relationship, —the
real genealogy of the plant kingdom. Before the theory of evolution ..."
7. A Short Description of the Republic of Chile: According to Official Data (1901)
"ANIMAL KINGDOM.— CATTLE-BREEDING. — PLANT-KINGDOM. — AGRICULTURE. ANIMAL KINGDOM.
— The animal kingdom (Fauna) of Chile ..."
8. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"A. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE plant kingdom.' The record of plants in the early geological
ages is extremely imperfect. In the very earliest times the conditions ..."
9. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"THE MOST PRIMITIVE LIVING REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ANCESTORS OF THE plant kingdom.
BY GEORGE T. MOORE, PH.D. (Read April 25, 1908.) There is but little doubt ..."
10. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"A. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE plant kingdom.' The record of plants in the early geological
ages is extremely imperfect. In the very earliest times the conditions ..."
11. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"The Development of Form in the plant kingdom The Thallus.—The simplest form that
we can imagine for an organism is that of a sphere, and this is actually ..."
12. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"DISTRIBUTION OF STIPULES IN THE plant kingdom. It would carry me too far here to
give the story of the distribution of stipules in the different families, ..."
13. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Such a synopsis, therefore, attempts to show an actual "blood relationship, —the
real genealogy of the plant kingdom. Before the theory of evolution ..."
14. A Short Description of the Republic of Chile: According to Official Data (1901)
"ANIMAL KINGDOM.— CATTLE-BREEDING. — PLANT-KINGDOM. — AGRICULTURE. ANIMAL KINGDOM.
— The animal kingdom (Fauna) of Chile ..."