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Plantae
Plantae
Translingual
Proper noun
Plantae
- A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Eukaryota – the plants. About 300,000 species of organism that all contain chlorophyll to obtain energy from the sun.
Hyponyms
- (kingdom): angiosperms - clade; Anthocerotophyta, Bryophyta, Charophyta, Chlorophyta, Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, Gnetophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Marchantiophyta, Pinophyta, Pteridophyta; †Pteridospermatophyta (extinct) - phyla
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- (kingdom): Biliphyta, Viridiplantae - subkingdoms[1]
Coordinate terms
References
- 1 2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521