| 单词 | vegetable creation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable creation 3. Designating the division of the natural world to which plants (and in early use all living organisms other than animals) belong, as vegetable creation, vegetable world, etc.Recorded earliest, and chiefly, in vegetable kingdom n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] > vegetable kingdom vegetable kingdom1650 vegetal1658 vegetable creation1823 plant life1855 1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces iv. 249 As in the vegetable kingdom water cleanseth water. 1667 A. Cowley Garden in J. Wells Poems Divers Occasions sig. ¶ 7v Who would not joy to see his conqu'ring hand O're all the Vegetable world command? 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 399 The Vegetable World, each Plant, and Tree,..I am allow'd, as Fame reports, to know. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 206 This extends in more or less degree to every part of vegetable creation. 1837 Farmers’ Reg. 1 Nov. 414/2 If the whole class of animals were extinguished, the use of the atmosphere by the vegetable class alone, would exhaust it of its life-supporting power. 1889 S. F. Baird Sea Fisheries East. N. Amer. 72 The most important element of the vegetable division is in the extremely minute and more or less microscopic form of diatoms. 1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) Introd. 1 Formerly those compounds which occur in the animal and vegetable worlds were classed under organic, and those which occur in the mineral world were under inorganic chemistry. 1999 Guardian 22 Apr. i. 12/5 French scientists have found the vegetable world's missing link. < as lemmas |
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