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
The evolution of animal from vegetable life is also dealt with simply, by showing the absence of a clear dividing line at or near the lowly, ambiguous bacterium.
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
Through processes but imperfectly understood, the varying forms of vegetable life are empowered to conserve, from air and soil, nitrogen and other substances suitable for and essential to the life maintenance of animal creatures.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
