plant kingdom
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- noun
- /plænt ˈkɪŋdəm/
- Specialized
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reino vegetal
- The plant kingdom includes various species like trees, shrubs, and flowers.
And so everything in the plant Kingdom has fiber and nothing in the plant Kingdom has cholesterol.
- And so everything in the plant Kingdom has fiber and nothing in the plant Kingdom has cholesterol.
- But surprising as it may seem, even the plant Kingdom is also dominated by the need to move.
- And so I'd love to explore how plant, the plant Kingdom and fungi.
- Then we have the magic level, which links to the plant Kingdom.
- Your life is in communion with plants, with the plant Kingdom.
- And then and then we lost the plant Kingdom.
- Like when you look at the the plant Kingdom, what stands out?
Examples
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As with floodplain animals, the plant kingdom basically thrived.
Academic text (1993) -
The evidence is strong, he said, that CAM photosynthesis evolved numerous times in the plant kingdom.
Academic text (1998) -
But, uh, cotton is of the plant kingdom.
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Ordinary consciousness is a remarkable quality that sets the animal kingdom apart from the plant kingdom.
Fiction book (1994) -
Whittaker originally wanted to include all producers in the plant kingdom.
Academic text (2012) -
Both Whittaker and Copeland argued that the fungi should be removed from the plant kingdom, but for very different reasons.
Academic text (2012) -
Copeland restricted his plant kingdom to a monophyletic group of vascular plants and their close relatives.
Academic text (2012) -
Arabidopsis thaliana (rightmost flower at right) is the plant of choice for laboratory study, the "fruit fly" of the plant kingdom.
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Oddly, the species that serves as an experimental model for the entire plant kingdom appears to be unique in having A genes (a condition it most likely shares with other members of the mustard family).
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Whittaker's functional plant kingdom was an admittedly polyphyletic group of land plants, brown algae, and red algae.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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A group in biology that includes all plants, living or extinct
A large group of living things that includes all plants like mosses and flowering plants
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the group of living organisms consisting of all plants' is directly and compositionally derived from 'plant' (a photosynthetic organism) + 'kingdom' (a broad taxonomic category). This noun–noun compound follows a common cross‑linguistic and English pattern for naming biological categories, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Plant kingdom The name plant kingdom comes from the way scientists long ago grouped living things like countries or kingdoms. They put all plant species that make their own food together as one kingdom, so today plant kingdom means 'the group of all plants'.