vegetal

Example Sentences

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Its fire is different — not a slap-you-in-the-face blaze but a cleaner, more vegetal heat that builds and breaks gently, more like a tide rolling in and out.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025

Fufu tastes gently vegetal, and it’s a texture-eater’s dream, dense yet smoothly yielding.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024

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

From Washington Times • Sep. 16, 2023

There are also chile liqueurs, such as Ancho Reyes’ Original ancho and its Verde, the former sweet and smoky, the latter retaining more of the raw poblano chile’s green vegetal notes.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 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