animal vegetable mineral
Twenty questions trio
Animal vegetable mineral refers to the three traditional kingdoms into which all natural objects were once classified—animals move and breathe, vegetables grow from the ground, minerals are inert matter.
The phrase survives mainly as the basis for the guessing game Twenty Questions, where one player thinks of something and others must determine which category it belongs to: Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral?
- plant kingdomAll photosynthetic organisms
- creatureLiving, sentient entity
- beastLarge wild animal
- living thingEntity with life
- plantBotanical organism
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animal vegetable mineralscientific classification
Systematic organism categorization
animal, vegetable, mineral, animals, vegetables, minerals, animate, animated, animation