Noun
vegetable kingdom
Collectively, the set of all plants.
Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. Frank Zappa
The same law of development presides over the vegetable kingdom. ...where a special function is required for particular circumstances, nature has provided for it, not by a new organ, but by a modification of a common one, which she has effected in development. Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802)