kingdom plantae

Noun
  1. (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants (synset 111550054)
    referred to in: botany, phytology - the branch of biology that studies plants
    is a type 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
    member holonym:
    • 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• phanerogamae - in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta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
    same as: plant kingdom, plantae

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