vegetable kingdom

Example Sentences

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Simple, ignoble, under-appreciated green cabbage: It has got to be one of the most unpretentious and humblest in all of the Cruciferae family, if not among the entire vegetable kingdom.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024

Especially when you’re loading up on some of the healthiest in the vegetable kingdom.

From Fox News • Feb. 6, 2022

We apply the terms “invasive” and “native” to the vegetable kingdom.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

In this interpretation, B. caapi and chacruna are the spokesplants for the entire vegetable kingdom.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2016

This observation equally applies to the vegetable kingdom; and trees that have scarcely attained their full growth in northern regions are drooping in the south.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)