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VEGETABLE MATTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vegetable matter" is a kind of...):
matter (that which has mass and occupies space)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vegetable matter"):
peat (partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried)
coal (fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period)
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