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Meanings of decay vegetable in English

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Usage of decay vegetable in English
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Decaying vegetable matter can upset the delicate balance of the watery ecosystem.
The Irish Times
2
The decayed vegetable matter accumulated by centuries ferments under the summer sun.
The Roman Question
3
The smell from decayed vegetable substances was sickly and exceedingly disagreeable.
Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, ...
4
Your chicks have eaten soured food, decayed vegetables or tainted meat.
One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
5
To see decayed vegetables or meat, denotes losses in business.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
6
The soil, to a great depth, appeared to be composed of decayed vegetable substances.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 / ...
7
Someone else pulls a canvas bag, smelling faintly of decaying vegetables, over my head.
The Fuller Memorandum
8
Science has not yet decided which is the more fatal, decayed vegetables or unventilated rooms.
The Golden House
9
Withered, or decayed vegetables, bring unmitigated woe and sadness.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
10
Layers of sandstone or of shale containing this decayed vegetable, alternate with layers which contain none.
At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies
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All along one's nostrils are offended by the fetid odour of mud and decayed vegetable matter.
Across Unknown South America
12
The soil is the natural disintegrated rock, rich in the mineral elements, but lacking in decayed vegetable matter.
Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
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Mark found Betts's deposit of decayed vegetable matter even larger and more accessible than he had hoped for.
The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific
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Here it thrives on the humus and decayed vegetable matter and sends long, winding tendrils down to the ground.
Boy Scouts in the Philippines; Or, The Key to the Treaty Box
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The air was heavy and full of smoke, and of other smells besides: acrid chemicals, decaying vegetable matter, sewage.
The amber spyglass
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Their business in the economy of nature is chiefly the consumption of decayed vegetable matter, which would otherwise contaminate the atmosphere.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...