different between feral vs vegetal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French féral, from fer + -al, or borrowed from a Late Latin fer?lis, from Latin ferus (“wild”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???l/, /?f????l/
• Rhymes: -?r?l, -????l
• Homophone: Farrell (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Adjective

feral (comparative more feral, superlative most feral)

1. Wild, untamed, especially of domesticated animals having returned to the wild.
2. (of a person) Contemptible, unruly, misbehaved.

Derived terms

• feral child
• feral cat

Translations

Noun

feral (plural ferals)

1. A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.
   • 2005, Alexandra Powe Allred, Cats' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Mysterious Mousers, Talented Tabbies, and Feline Oddities, unnumbered page,

     Traffic, abuse, inhumane traps, and accidental poisoning are other hazards ferals must face. […] In England one gamekeeper claimed to have killed over three hundred ferals, while another brought home pelts to his wife so that she could design rugs from cat skins as a source of secondary income.

   • 2007, Clea Simon, Cries and Whiskers, page 26,

     You trap ferals, neuter them, and give them their rabies shot. Maybe distemper.

   • 2011, Gina Spadafori, Paul D. Pion, Cats for Dummies, unnumbered page,

     If you?ve ever put a saucer of milk out for a hard-luck kitty, or if you?re spending your lunch hour sharing sandwiches with the ferals near your office, this is the chapter for you.

2. (Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.
3. (Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.
   • 1995, Bill Metcalf, From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality: Cooperative Lifestyles in Australia, page 82,

     The intolerance which was directed towards us during the early years has now shifted to ‘the ferals’ who embrace a new version of nonconformist behaviour that even some of us in their parent?s generation — the Aquarian settlers — don?t like. The ferals are the scapegoats for the drug problems here, and are highly visible since many of them have nowhere to live.

   • 2002, Shane Maloney, Something Fishy, 2003, page 208,

     A pod of ferals was moving towards the exit, a half-dozen soap-shy, low-tech, bush-dwelling hippies.

   • 2010, Anna Krien, Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests, page 102,

     It?s the rootlessness of the ferals that people don?t seem to trust; their claims of connectedness to all wild places touches a nerve. Even residents of Maydena who want to see the Florentine protected dislike the ratbags? itinerancy.

4. (furry subculture) A character in furry art or literature which has the physical characteristics (body) of a regular animal (typically quadripedal), that may or may not be able to communicate with humans or anthros (contrasts anthro)

   The story is about a group of ferals which have to explore the ruins of society after the humans die out.

Derived terms

• feral child
• feral cat

Usage notes

• Feral in the furry-related sense can refer to both regular animals as well as characters which have the bodies of regular animals but the intelligence of a human. Intelligent feral characters are often depicted as speaking with other characters, but may only be able to speak with other ferals and not humans or anthros due to a language barrier.

Anagrams

• flare

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Late Latin fer?lis, from Latin ferus (“wild”), or formed from fiero +? -al.

Adjective

feral (plural ferales)

1. feral

Related terms

• fiero

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin veget?lis, from veget?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?d??tl?/
• (General American) enPR: v?j??-tl, IPA^(key): /?v?d???tl?/
• Rhymes: -?d??t?l
• 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.]
2. Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
   • 2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241:

     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.

3. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

Derived terms

• vegetally
• vegetal pole
• vegetaline

Translations

Noun

vegetal (plural vegetals)

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

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

Anagrams

• gavelet

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v?.???tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?.???tal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve.d??e?tal/

Adjective

vegetal (masculine and feminine plural vegetals)

1. relating to plants or vegetables

Interlingua

Adjective

vegetal (not comparable)

1. vegetal, vegetable

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ved??e?tal/

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetaj)

1. vegetable

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve?e?taw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /v????ta?/
• Hyphenation: ve?ge?tal

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)

Synonyms

• (edible material derived from a plant):, verdura f, planta f, erva f, hortaliça f

Adjective

vegetal m or f (plural vegetais, comparable)

1. Relative to plants and vegetables

   Célula vegetal.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French végétal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve.d??e?tal/

Adjective

vegetal m or n (feminine singular vegetal?, masculine plural vegetali, feminine and neuter plural vegetale)

1. vegetal, vegetable

Declension

Further reading

• vegetal in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bexe?tal/, [be.xe?t?al]
• Hyphenation: ve?ge?tal

Adjective

vegetal (plural vegetales)

1. vegetal

Derived terms

• aceite vegetal

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetales)

1. vegetable

   Synonym: verdura