vegetal

Example Sentences

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Seeds are visible among the chopped roasted chiles, smoky and vegetal and bringing some heat, overlaid with a single square of American cheese melted into place.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Brazil principally exported vegetal fats and oils, rice and poultry meat.

From Washington Times • Sep. 16, 2023

It contains a compound that can make wines taste weirdly metallic or overly vegetal, and can grossly exaggerate the aromas that come with oak-aged wine.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2023

Crisp and fresh, but thick with scents: trees, soil, lichens, slow and organic growth, vegetal decomposition.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

I ask his mouth, remembering, despite the fact that my IQ is approaching the vegetal range, that he too must have a name.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson