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mineral kingdom

noun

  1. minerals collectively.


mineral kingdom

noun

  1. all nonliving material, esp rocks and minerals Compare animal kingdom plant 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
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Origin of mineral kingdom1

First recorded in 1685–95
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The same sort of evolution happens in the mineral kingdom.

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It recognized Carl Linnaeus, who popularized the system of classifying living things and divided them into the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms.

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“For the first time in this gallery, we are looking at life’s impact on the mineral kingdom.”

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Museum of Economic Geology.—This small but interesting establishment, having an entrance in Jermyn Street, is a national museum for the exhibition of all such articles as belong to the mineral kingdom. 

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He exhibited in the principal towns quantities of gold dust, many quadrupeds, and gaily-coloured birds, then unknown in Europe, with numerous specimens of natural productions in the vegetable and mineral kingdoms.

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