How to Use plant kingdom in a Sentence

plant kingdom

noun

• For sheer biomass, nothing in the plant kingdom beats a tree.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The world knows a thing or two about centering meals on the plant kingdom.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018
• While these flowers may look odd, there are some in the plant kingdom that are out of this world.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2022
• The plant bears some of the least attractive common names in the plant kingdom: Some know it as naked broomrape.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2018
• From large trees in the Amazon jungle to houseplants to seaweed in the ocean, green is the color that reigns over the plant kingdom.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2020
• Food scientists had to cast a wide net to find any protein in the plant kingdom that behaved like that.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 23 July 2019
• The notion that the plant kingdom is benign is a fallacy.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2019
• And is there any being in the plant kingdom that embodies touch more than moss and its family, the bryophytes?
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 3 Nov. 2022
• But the ever-adaptable plant kingdom takes it all in stride, and witnessing its comeback might just start a flame in your heart.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• The flowers, on most varieties, are a stunningly rich blue, one of the least common colors in the plant kingdom.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2021
• This can be seen as further evidence from the plant kingdom of climate change in action.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
• Sundew Plants Sundews are the biggest group of the carnivore plant kingdom.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
• Early-leafing species such as blueberries and willows are the gamblers of the plant kingdom.
  — Richard B. Primack, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2021
• This time of year, with the greenmarkets in full swing (and pictures of tiny, adorable pigs on Instagram), there’s no better time to re-embrace the full splendor of the plant kingdom.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 16 June 2018
• In the plant kingdom’s Ginkgoaceae family, there is just one living species, Ginkgo biloba.
  — Sarah Gibbens, Environment, 30 Nov. 2020
• Many of the colors seen in nature, particularly in the plant kingdom, are produced by pigments, which reflect a portion of the light spectrum while absorbing the rest.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
• Our elders include the spirits, the elements, viruses and bacteria, the plant kingdom, and the animal kingdom.
  — Kiran Herbert, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2020
• In more recent decades, nurseries have grafted healthy Meyer cuttings onto the trunks of hardier species which bear ugly, inedible fruit but can protect themselves with tough thorns — the switchblades of the plant kingdom.
  — Grace Hwang Lynch, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Yet for years medicine looked at the devastation fungi wreak on the plant kingdom and never considered that humans or other animals might be equally at risk.
  — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
• The plant kingdom is full of unusual talents that are more common than biologists first realized.
  — Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2021
• The ferns’ genomes also fill gaps in biologists’ understanding of the evolutionary history of the plant kingdom.
  — Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2018
• Our terrestrial biases have long led us to seek beauty and utility first in the plant kingdom, but algae—which are not plants, and span multiple kingdoms—do the essential things that plants do, only better.
  — Lucy Jakub, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
• Many members of the plant kingdom take to smoke fabulously, too, especially starchy-sweet root vegetables and fibrous produce like asparagus and summer squash.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
• The message is clear and there’s a not-too-distant future where our unsustainable reliance on animal protein is jettisoned for the almost limitless variety of our plant kingdom.
  — Larissa Zimberoff, Time, 15 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024