vegetable matter

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   matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant

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Questions about vegetable matter

What does vegetable matter mean?

vegetable matter means "matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant".

Is vegetable matter a common word?

vegetable matter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.