noun
(botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants
• Syn: ↑Plantae, ↑kingdom Plantae
• Hypernyms: ↑kingdom
• Member Meronyms:
↑plant, ↑flora, ↑plant life, ↑Thallophyta, ↑Tracheophyta, ↑division Tracheophyta, ↑plant order, ↑Bryophyta, ↑division Bryophyta, ↑Pteridophyta, ↑division Pteridophyta, ↑Spermatophyta, ↑division Spermatophyta, ↑Phanerogamae, ↑Cryptogamia, ↑plant family, ↑plant genus, ↑Lycophyta
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noun : the one of the three basic groups of natural objects that comprises all living and extinct plants — compare animal kingdom, mineral kingdom
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the plants of the world collectively. Also called vegetable kingdom. Cf. animal kingdom, mineral kingdom.
[1880-85]
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plant kingdom,
all plants, as distinguished from animals and minerals; vegetable kingdom.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.