a category of living organisms comprising all plants but excluding the algae, fungi, and bacteria
Compare animal kingdom, mineral kingdom
Examples of 'vegetable kingdom' in a sentence
vegetable kingdom
Analogous facts in the vegetable kingdom could be given.
Charles Darwin The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 2 (1868). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Trypsin inhibitors are proteins present in the vegetable kingdom, considered anti-nutritional factors for animals.
Jéssica Morais de Araújo, Jussara Cristina Alves, Thayane Kerbele Oliveira das NevesPeixoto, Amanda Fernandes de Medeiros, Richele Janaína de Araújo Machado, AlexandreCoelho Serquiz, Renata Alexandra Moreira das Neves, Elizeu Antunes dos Santos, AdrianaFerreira Uchôa, Ana Heloneida de Araújo Morais 2014, 'Determinação da atividade antitríptica em proteínas de produtos do amendoim isoladaspor cromatografia de afinidade', Química Novahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422014001000008&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
I have heard of no other such case in the animal or vegetable kingdom.
Charles Darwin The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 1 (1868). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
It appears to me that hardly any more remarkable fact than this has been observed in the vegetable kingdom.
Charles Darwin Insectivorous Plants (1875). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Flavonoids are compounds with low molecular weight that are widely distributed throughout the vegetable kingdom, including in edible plants.
Teresa Vezza, Alba Rodríguez-Nogales, Francesca Algieri, Maria Pilar Utrilla, MariaElena Rodriguez-Cabezas, Julio Galvez 2016, 'Flavonoids in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Review', Nutrientshttp://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/8/4/211. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Finally, climbing plants are sufficiently numerous to form a conspicuous feature in the vegetable kingdom, more especially in tropical forests.
Charles Darwin The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1906). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
In the vegetable kingdom cases of sterility frequently occur, analogous with thosepreviously given in the animal kingdom.
Charles Darwin The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 2 (1868). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
But in the vegetable kingdom there are no races, no varieties so constant as to be perpetuated by reproduction.
Ambrose Blacklock A Treatise on Sheep (1853). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)