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mineral kingdom

American  

noun

  1. minerals collectively.


mineral kingdom British  

noun

  1. all nonliving material, esp rocks and minerals Compare animal kingdom plant kingdom

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of mineral kingdom

First recorded in 1685–95

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The same sort of evolution happens in the mineral kingdom.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

Vegetable poisons are chiefly narcotics, and many of them are as virulent as any in the mineral kingdom.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty

Occult science points to the dead body as that part of man which is to be found existing in the same way in the mineral kingdom.

From An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner

Basic copper phosphates are of frequent occurrence in the mineral kingdom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

Within manifested nature the physical body, according to occult science, is that part of man which is of the same nature as the mineral kingdom.

From An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner

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