adv. rare. [f. as prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In the manner of a vegetable or plant; with vegetative properties.

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1651.  Biggs, New Disp., 39. These things happen in plants vegetably animate.

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  2.  In respect of, by means of, vegetables; towards vegetables. Only in combs.

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1827.  Examiner, 248/1. There is a bold enrichment in the vegetably-marked foreground.

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1867.  F. Francis, Angling, i. (1880), 31. A bait for roach when they are vegetably-minded.

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