Their almost exclusively vegetable diet, their excessive toil, and the habit of drinking half-putrid rain-water from cisterns which they very rarely clean, may possibly explain this physical degeneration of the Cadurci.

Beef is cheap, and vegetables and fruits at all seasons plenty.

There are some who declaim against the use of any and all kinds of meat for food, and advocate a purely vegetable diet.

In the worst cases it is repulsively vegetable.

Shores fringed with impenetrable mangroves; a soil producing scarcely any indigenous vegetable, either in the shape of root or fruit fit for food.

If some organisms may be said to be at first vegetables and then animals, others, like the spores and other reproductive bodies of many of the lower Algae, may equally claim to have first a characteristically animal, and then an unequivocally vegetable existence.