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
These and other observations have led to the irresistible conclusion that Mars has air, water, warmth, and vegetable life.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If there were vegetable life, it would have converted some of the carbon dioxide into oxygen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I have my doubts, however, about the light of volcanoes being sufficient to produce or sustain vegetable life, and think it a little doubtful about trees growing only by "volcanic glare."
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green