Words similar to vegetable

Example sentences for: vegetable

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But by the end, he cannot imagine being loved by any human being at all and comforts himself with the pathetic idea that perhaps the fungus growing on the late-autumn soggy ground is offering him, in some spongy vegetable manner of its own, the acceptance he craves.
The paper reports that construction shortcuts were common in older high-rises, including cases where building crews used vegetable oil cans instead of bricks.
Are they animal, vegetable, or mineral?
Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.
Don’t miss the colorful fruit and vegetable market that takes place at the Haymarket, just behind Blackstone Block, on Friday and Saturday.