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单词 animal kingdom
释义

animal kingdom

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noun

the animals of the world collectively.
Compare mineral kingdom, plant kingdom.

Origin of animal kingdom

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby animal kingdom

animalism, animalist, animalistic, animality, animalize, animal kingdom, Animal Liberation Front, animally, animal magnetism, animal park, animal pole
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Example sentences from the Web for animal kingdom

  • This story is repeated over and over again in the history of the animal-kingdom.

    The Whence and the Whither of Man|John Mason Tyler

British Dictionary definitions for animal kingdom

animal kingdom

noun

a category of living organisms comprising all animalsCompare plant kingdom, mineral kingdom
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for animal kingdom

animal kingdom

The group of living things typically distinguished from members of the plant kingdom by the power of moving from place to place and by a metabolism that does not use photosynthesis.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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