kingdom plantae
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1. (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | kingdom, |
definition | : | the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia (noun.group) |
member holonym | : | flora, plant, plant life, |
definition | : | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion (noun.tops) |
member holonym | : | thallophyta, |
definition | : | used only in former classifications: comprising what is now considered a heterogeneous assemblage of flowerless and seedless organisms: algae; bacteria; fungi; lichens (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | division tracheophyta, tracheophyta, |
definition | : | in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | plant order, |
definition | : | the order of plants (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | bryophyta, division bryophyta, |
definition | : | 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) (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | division pteridophyta, pteridophyta, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | division spermatophyta, spermatophyta, |
definition | : | 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) (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | phanerogamae, |
definition | : | in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | cryptogamia, |
definition | : | in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | plant family, |
definition | : | a family of plants (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | plant genus, |
definition | : | a genus of plants (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | lycophyta, |
definition | : | used in some classifications for the class Lycopsida: club mosses (noun.plant) |
domain category | : | botany, phytology, |
definition | : | the branch of biology that studies plants (noun.cognition) |
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