English > plant kingdom: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants. |
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| Synonyms | Plantae, kingdom Plantae |
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| Category | botany, phytology | The branch of biology that studies plants |
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| Members | 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 |
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| Cryptogamia | In former classification systems |
| Lycophyta | Used in some classifications for the class Lycopsida |
| Phanerogamae | In former classification systems |
| Pteridophyta, division Pteridophyta | Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds |
| Spermatophyta, division Spermatophyta | seed plants |
| Thallophyta | Used only in former classifications |
| Tracheophyta, division Tracheophyta | In former classifications |
| plant, flora, plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| plant family | A family of plants |
| plant genus | A genus of plants |
| plant order | The order of plants |
| Broader | kingdom | The highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped |
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| Spanish | plantae, reino vegetal |
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| Catalan | Plantae, plantae |
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