vegetal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- vĕjʹĭ-tl (General-American)
- /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪ̈tl̩/ (General-American)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō.
Meanings
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(archaic, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).
Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:
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Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos.
1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:The Computer Center is muffled and dim, warm with whiffs of sourness, of body odor, and of the vegetal smells of dirt embedded in clothes that were advancing in the direction of compost.
2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241:
- Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more vegetal | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most vegetal | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
vegetal pole · ventrovegetal · vegetal parchment · dorsovegetal · vegetally · vegetality · vegetaline · vegetalize
Translations (21)
ca vegetal (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · bg расти́телен (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · ka მცენარეთა (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · pl roślinny (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · nl plantaardig (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · pt vegetal (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · de pflanzlich (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · es vegetal (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · oc vegetal (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · fi kasvi- (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · ga plandúil (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · nl vegetaal (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · eo vegetala (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · ka მცენარეული (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · fi kasvis- (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · hu növényi (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · fi kasvillinen (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · fr végétal (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · ru расти́тельный (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · uk росли́нний (pertaining to vegetables or plants) · be расьлі́нны (pertaining to vegetables or plants)