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vegetal
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)
- (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
- 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.
- 2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241:
- (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
Derived terms
- vegetally
- vegetal pole
- vegetaline
Translations
Noun
vegetal (plural vegetals)
- (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)
- relating to plants or vegetables
Interlingua
Adjective
vegetal (not comparable)
- vegetal, vegetable
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ved??e?tal/
Noun
vegetal m (plural vegetaj)
- vegetable
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ve?e?taw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /v????ta?/
- Hyphenation: ve?ge?tal
Noun
vegetal m (plural vegetais)
- vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- vegetal
Derived terms
- aceite vegetal
Noun
vegetal m (plural vegetales)
- vegetable
- Synonym: verdura
vegetal From the web:
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vegetative
English
Etymology
From Middle French végétatif, from Medieval Latin vegetativus, from past participle stem of vegetare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?d??te?t?v/
Adjective
vegetative (comparative more vegetative, superlative most vegetative)
- Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
- (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
- Physically inactive.
- (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
Related terms
- persistent vegetative state
- vegetatively
- vegetativeness
See also
- comatose
- brain dead
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
vegetative
- inflection of vegetativ:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
vegetative
- feminine plural of vegetativo
vegetative From the web:
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- bamboo vegetative propagules
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