vegetable
/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ adjective C2- Of or relating to plants. · This substance is vegetable, not mineral.
- Of or relating to vegetables.
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I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects.
“Oh, I know!” exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last remark, “it’s a vegetable.
“All right,” said Joe, reaching for the blue scalloped vegetable dish.
“I have seen Russians devour, without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an Arab.”
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