phylum

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the largest phylum in the Plant Kingdom.

a major category into which scientists group types of animals and plants (more precisely: the taxonomic category below kingdom and above class)

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Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the largest phylum in the Plant Kingdom.
She teased him because it was all so pretty and melodic, and "in the same phylum as Hall and Oates," and he threatened to evict her from his room.
Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
Nom et pronom, species and phylum.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
To Madagascar, to start a new phylum of Malayali Swimming Spiders.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

Tables of contents of reference material are so structured, mechanical assemblies, computer software, all scientific and technical knowledge is so structured…so much so that in some fields such as biology, the hierarchy of kingdom phylum-class-order-family-genus-species is almost an icon.

Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Associated words [difficulty]: phylum [8] , species [1] , genus [6] , taxonomy [9] , species [1] , genus [6] , deciduous [8] , hominid [8] , marsupial [8] , coniferous [9] , taxonomy [9]
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