How to pronounce “vegetable kingdom” in English

Differences in the way that animals and vegetables reproduced meant that, according to the definition of the time, plants could regrow from cuttings but animals could not.So when the cut polyps regenerated their lost parts, that should have allowed Trembley to place them in the vegetable kingdom.But some of their other properties marked them out as animal, at least according to Aristotle's definition, which was still pretty standard at this time.