vegetable kingdom

Example Sentences

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Simple, ignoble, under-appreciated green cabbage: It has got to be one of the most unpretentious and humblest in all of the Cruciferae family, if not among the entire vegetable kingdom.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024

Especially when you’re loading up on some of the healthiest in the vegetable kingdom.

From Fox News • Feb. 6, 2022

And here I might add that I learned so many things, so much that was new to me, about the amazing vegetable kingdom when researching that book.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

In this interpretation, B. caapi and chacruna are the spokesplants for the entire vegetable kingdom.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2016

Some rose bushes, which obligingly flowered all winter, a jasmine, a tall scented verbena, a long row of sweet peppers, two clumps of artichokes, and sundry tufts of herbs completed our vegetable kingdom.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart