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
Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi, and to deny animal existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The waters of this neighborhood teem with strange forms of animal and vegetable life.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray
