vegetable+life
111vegetative — 1. Growing or functioning involuntarily or unconsciously, after the assumed manner of vegetable life; denoting especially a state of grossly impaired consciousness, as after severe head trauma or brain disease, in which an individual is incapable …
112FLOATING ISLANDS — are sometimes formed of masses of driftwood on which débris, vegetation, &c., gradually form a soil, but are more commonly portions of river banks detached by the force of the current when swollen and drifted put, sometimes as much as 100 m.,… …
113PROTOPLASM — a name given to presumed living matter forming the physical bases of all forms of animal and vegetable life; the term is now superseded by the term bioplasm. See DR. STIRLING, AS REGARDS PROTOPLASM …
114UPAS TREE — a poison yielding tree, at one time fabled to exhale such poison that it was destructive to all animal and vegetable life for miles round it …
115flora — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. vegetable life, verdure, plants; see vegetation …
116CITTA — BUDDHIST term translated as consciousness or mind. Believed to pertain to all entities which are superior to vegetable life …
117plant — {{11}}plant (n.) O.E. plante young tree or shrub, herb newly planted, from L. planta sprout, shoot, cutting, perhaps from *plantare to drive in with the feet, push into the ground with the feet, from planta sole of the foot, from nasalized form… …
118“Dunwich Horror, The“ — Novelette (17,590 words); written in August 1928. First published in WT(April 1929); first collected in O; corrected text in DH; annotated version in An1and TD. In the seedy area of Dunwich in “north central Massachusetts” live a number of… …
119flora — n. Plants (of a country), vegetation, vegetable life …
120Ray — I. /reɪ/ (say ray) noun 1. John, 1627–1705, English naturalist; provided systematic classifications and descriptions of animal and vegetable life. 2. Johnnie (John Alvin Ray), 1927–90, US pop singer. 3. Man, 1890–1976, US surrealist painter and… …
