Definition of plant kingdom Plant kingdom
plant king•dom
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What does plant kingdom mean?
WordNet
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| plant kingdom - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants | ||
| Plantae, kingdom Plantae | ||
| kingdom a basic group of natural objects | ||
| phytology, botany the branch of biology that studies plants | ||
| plant life, flora, plant (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | ||
| thallophyta used only in former classifications: comprising what is now considered a heterogeneous assemblage of flowerless and seedless organisms: algae; bacteria; fungi; lichens | ||
| division tracheophyta, tracheophyta in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants | ||
| plant order the order of plants | ||
| bryophyta, division bryophyta a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida) | ||
| division pteridophyta, pteridophyta containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta | ||
| division spermatophyta, spermatophyta seed plants; comprises the Angiospermae (or Magnoliophyta) and Gymnospermae (or Gymnospermophyta); in some classification systems Spermatophyta is coordinate with Pteridophyta (spore producing plants having vascular tissue and roots) and Bryophyta (spore producing plants lacking vascular tissue and roots) | ||
| phanerogamae in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta | ||
| cryptogamia in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi | ||
| plant family a family of plants | ||
| plant genus a genus of plants | ||
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- plant kingdom (Noun)
Collectively, the set of all plants.
