1. Meat stays in the gut longer than vegetable matter.

2. They feed on large tough fruits and other vegetable matter, including bark which they can tear apart with their strong hands.

3. In order to decompose, all vegetable matter needs supplies of nitrogen.

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4. They feed mostly on decaying vegetable matter.

5. Dark, fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.

6. Partially carbonized vegetable matter, usually mosses, bogs and used as fertilizer and fuel.

7. This process does not remove the inert vegetable matter contained in raw wool fibre.

8. Leftover food is given to pigs and vegetable matter is put back onto the fields.

9. An infusion of vegetable matter, as from oak bark , used in tanning.

10. An infusion of vegetable matter, as from oak bark , tanning.

11. Partially carbonized vegetable matter, usually mosses, found in bogs and used as fertilizer and fuel.

12. But celluloid, which had developed a reputation as a cheap mim-ic of better traditional materials, was de- rived from chemically treated cotton and other cellulose-containing vegetable matter.

13. Lunch and dinner were always the same—a tin plate piled with a suspicious pilaff, mostly rice with occasional bits of lamb and shreds of vegetable matter of indeterminate origin.

1. Meat stays in the gut longer than vegetable matter.