vegetable life
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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
Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi, and to deny animal existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the naturalist, vegetable life, with regard to its modern uses, is the great accumulator of pabulum for the sustenance of the higher forms of vital energy manifested in the animal.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William
