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
Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi, and to deny animal existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
These and other observations have led to the irresistible conclusion that Mars has air, water, warmth, and vegetable life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still more perplexing might it be to maintain the argument that these very insects have sprung according to a sure law of descent, from vegetable life itself.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Calderwood, Henry
