Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vegetal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vegetal \Veg"e*tal\, a. [F. v['e]g['e]tal. See {Vegetable}.]
1. Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom;
of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.
All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational.
--Burton.
2. (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of
vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption,
assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation,
generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals,
in distinction from sensation and volition, which are
peculiar to animals.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vegetal \Veg"e*tal\, n. [F.]
A vegetable. [R.] --B. Jonson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vegetal
adj 1: (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes [syn: {vegetative}]
2: composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal
products; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative
layer covering a forest floor" [syn: {vegetational}, {vegetative}]
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