plant kingdom

American  

noun

1. the plants of the world collectively.

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plant kingdom British  

noun

1. a category of living organisms comprising all plants but excluding the algae, fungi, and bacteria Compare animal kingdom mineral kingdom

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plant kingdom Cultural  

1. One of the five kingdoms of living things. Most plants derive energy from photosynthesis.

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Etymology

Origin of plant kingdom

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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plant kingdom

Even more exciting is that this knowledge of these genes, which are highly conserved across the plant kingdom, could help biofortify other crops such as wheat and barley using gene-editing and other modern breeding techniques.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023

Convergence is widespread in the plant kingdom as well: carnivorous plants evolved at least a dozen times, roots evolved more than once, and even arborescence—plants taking the form of trees—evolved more than once.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023

But recent research from the plant kingdom shows that a mouth isn’t essential.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

This is a fairly common behavior in the plant kingdom, but almost every example is found in orchids, a type of flower that numbers over 28,000 species.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023

He compares the plant kingdom to a great, luxurious tree, branching from its very base, whose twigs would represent the present stage of our different species.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler