More specifically concerning: complete vegetable
humanistic
20 June 2003, around 8.05.
He was good-natured, inoffensive, and weak; and if he was not an incomparable citizen, he was, at least, an excellent vegetable. (2003.85, p. 94)
Crambe repetita (11)
3 September 2004, around 17.49.
Thomas Carlyle, Two Notebooks.