vegetable life
Example Sentences
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Underneath that veranda, Fitzgerald writes, if you lifted one of the loose planks, there was a good deal of rustling animal and vegetable life.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014
Somehow a slow batsman seems more vivid in the memory, infused with kind of gently throbbing vegetable life.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012
If there were vegetable life, it would have converted some of the carbon dioxide into oxygen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi, and to deny animal existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It must be a petrified soul that can resist this wanton abandon of vegetable life.
From Prowling about Panama by Miller, George A.