vegetable matter

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vegetable matter - matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plantmatter - that which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it"peat - partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when driedcoal - fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period