Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Vegetable quality, character, or nature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The quality or state of being vegetable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The state or quality of being a
vegetable
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All our ideas of life, materiality, spirituality, animality, vegetability, sensibility, etc., would have to fall into greater or less desuetude, the language disappearing with the ideas.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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