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
While thousands on thousands of soft-handed, pale-necked civilians are beginning to learn the facts of animal and vegetable life, the great burden will still be borne by the professional farmers and poultrymen.
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
But Lavoisier was now able to give a much more definite account of the effects on the atmosphere of animal and vegetable life.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
