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vegetable kingdom1650
(a) = plant kingdomn. at plant, n.1 compounds 5; (b) vegetables collectively (cf. vegetable, n. 3).
vegetal1658
= vegetable, adj. 3. Now rare.
vegetable creation1823
Designating the division of the natural world to which plants (and in early use all living organisms other than animals) belong, as vegetable creation…