vegetable kingdom


noun
  1. another name for plant kingdom

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How to use vegetable kingdom in a sentence

  • Some of them are very widely distributed throughout the vegetable kingdom, but others are almost peculiar to individual plants.

  • The Orchid family is certainly the most curious in the vegetable kingdom, as it is almost the most extensive, except the Grasses.

  • The vegetable kingdom was also laid under contribution, and the trisula came into a resemblance of the tree of knowledge.

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  • We distinguish the animal from the vegetable kingdom, despite the fact that in their lower forms they cannot be distinguished.

  • It would not be consistent with the plan of this work to embrace the whole natural history of the animal and vegetable kingdom.