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Another word for vegetable

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Modifier

  1. Concerning flora

  2. Without spirit

Noun

  1. A plant

  2. An inert person

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Sentence Examples

  • Today, I have a vegetable garden in my backyard.

  • This regulation of turgor is as characteristic of vegetable protoplasm as contraction is of muscle.

  • I won't be turned into a vegetable or an animal or anything else weird?

  • (From Greens Vegetable Physiology, by permission.)

  • According to Frazer, these traditions may be " distorted reminiscences " of the practice of human sacrifice, especially of divine kings, the object of which was to ensure fertility in the animal and vegetable worlds.

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