PLANT KINGDOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plant kingdom mean? 

• PLANT KINGDOM (noun)
  The noun PLANT KINGDOM has 1 sense:

1. (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants

  Familiarity information: PLANT KINGDOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANT KINGDOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae

Hypernyms ("plant kingdom" is a kind of...):

kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)

Meronyms (members of "plant kingdom"):

flora; plant; plant life ((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Phanerogamae (in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta)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)

Lycophyta (used in some classifications for the class Lycopsida: club mosses)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

 Context examples 

Any sterol found in the plant kingdom.

(Phytosterol, NCI Thesaurus)

CLE peptides are involved in cellular development and response to stress, and they are present throughout the plant kingdom, from green algae to flowering plants.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)