The phrase 'vegetable life' is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to the life of plants, but can also be used metaphorically to refer to something that is static and unchanging. For example, "In the office, we all lived a vegetable life—same thing every day."
For him, "life shouldn't exist: even vegetable life is suspect.
I had seen another wildness at work: an exuberant vegetable life, lusty, chaotic and vigorous.
His contention is that warmer weather is moving north and driving animal and vegetable life before it.
He felt life, a silent vegetable life, enclosing them, on this her father's land, this man present in every leaf and reaching branch.
Underneath that veranda, Fitzgerald writes, if you lifted one of the loose planks, there was a good deal of rustling animal and vegetable life.
Kiefer's paint is forthrightly the crusty medium of generation - the baked clay that develops the cracks and fissures from which vegetable life burgeons forth.
Five years ago, after playing tennis, swimming, sailing and visiting with his grandchildren, her husband suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that, she says, turned a vibrant man into a vegetable, his life sustained by a respirator and feeding tube.
Facing the camera, she holds up a stack of photographs for inspection, each a painterly looking fruit-and-vegetable still life.
Compared with the surprising vitality of the vegetable still lifes, though, many of the flower studies here, especially the tulips, seem quite tame.
It moves from a big, emphatic painting, all spritzes, swipes and spiny rays, of a sinewy pine tree and a thundercloud of a rock to a suite of vegetable still lifes (Shitao referred to himself as "a bitter gourd," only for the discerning palate) to a dozen album paintings illustrating poems by Huang Yanlu, a patron and friend.
Then concentrate instead on the artist's preference for painting's most intimate and user-friendly motif: his often gorgeous still lifes, with their traditional arrangements of fruits and vegetables, marine life and cut flowers and their continual backward glances to Zurbarán, the Dutch and Chardin.
