vegetal

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vegetālis, from vegetō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛdʒɨtl̩/
• (General American) enPR: vĕjʹĭ-tl, IPA^(key): /ˈvɛdʒɪ̈tl̩/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒɪtəl
• Hyphenation UK: ve‧ge‧tal, US: veg‧e‧tal

Adjective

vegetal (comparative more vegetal, superlative most vegetal)

1. (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
     , III.2.1.i:

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

2. Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
3. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

Noun

vegetal (plural vegetals)

1. (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.
   • Burton

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

Anagrams

• gavelet

Adjective

vegetal (masculine and feminine plural vegetals)

1. relating to plants or vegetables

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetais)

1. vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
2. (figuratively) vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)

Adjective

vegetal m, f (plural vegetais, comparable)

1. Relative to plants and vegetables

   Célula vegetal.

Adjective

vegetal (plural vegetales)

1. vegetal

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetales)

1. vegetable