VEGETABLE MATTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vegetable matter mean? 

• VEGETABLE MATTER (noun)
  The noun VEGETABLE MATTER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: VEGETABLE MATTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEGETABLE MATTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

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)