VEGETABLE MATTER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting substances

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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