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Vegetal

//ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). archaic, historical

    "Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […]."

  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes wordnet
  2. 2
    composed of vegetation or plants wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Any vegetable organism. obsolete

    "This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō.

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