mineral kingdom

Linnaeus used this as the top rank, dividing the physical world into the plant, animal and mineral kingdoms.

Nasut - the physical world, which is subdivided into the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.

For Steiner, the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms represent "cast off" elements of the human entity from previous rounds.

Working on several small canvases, E. E. Smith covers the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms, throwing in a few manufactured goods.

The 54 cards bear different photographic images chosen to celebrate what the Eameses described as "familiar and nostalgic objects from the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms."

The whole animal kingdom, from crocodiles to starlings, is fighting a war in which everything in the vegetable and mineral kingdoms, from foxgloves through bleach to pins, has been enrolled as weaponry.

This approach, the Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Kingdoms, survives until today in the popular mind, notably in the form of parlour games: "Is it animal, vegetable or mineral?"

The science on which the art was grounded comprised the natural history, anatomy, physiology and pathology of those animals, together with those portions of the vegetable and mineral kingdoms providing either aliment or remedy.

It treats of the synonyms of the Flindu Deities, and of the objects of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms as well as of the homonymous and generic terms.

Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who defined taxonomic arrangements for the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms acquired samples of the sawtoothed grain beetle from Suriname (Dutch Guiana) and named the species "Oryzaephilus surinamensis" because of this.