| 单词 | animal kingdom |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanimal kingdom animal kingdom n. animals collectively, as one of the major divisions of the natural world (now in Biology usually excluding protozoans).See note at sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > [noun] > animal kingdom animal kingdom1650 animal world1665 animated nature1692 animality1766 animal series1831 brute-kind1880 1650 J. F. tr. M. Sedziwój New Light of Alchymie 114 By the due separation, and conjunction of these, Nature produceth..in the Animall Kingdome [L. in regno..animali] the Body, Spirit, and Soule, which especially doth resemble the work of the Philosophers. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. p. xxiii Men usually consider the productions of Nature as forming three distinct parts, called the Animal, the Vegetable, and the Fossil or Mineral Kingdom. 1862 T. H. Huxley On Knowl. Causes Phenomena Org. Nature 49 If you divide the Animal Kingdom into Orders you will find that there are above one hundred and twenty. 1906 Lancet 24 Nov. 1447/1 He..points out the reasons for allotting protococcus to the vegetable kingdom, the amoeba to the animal kingdom, and the springing monad..to neither. 2002 P. Herring Biol. Deep Ocean App. 286 Arthropods..are by far the most abundant members of the animal kingdom. < as lemmas |
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