From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Vegetal \Veg"e*tal\, n. [F.]
A vegetable. [R.] --B. Jonson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Vegetal \Veg"e*tal\, a. [F. v['e]g['e]tal. See {Vegetable}.]
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1. Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom;
of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.
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All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational.
--Burton.
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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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vegetal
adj 1: composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in
vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying
vegetative layer covering a forest floor" [syn:
{vegetal}, {vegetational}, {vegetative}]
2: (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes [syn:
{vegetal}, {vegetative}]
From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-por-eng]:
vegetal
plant
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