Vegetal

Quick meaning: Vegetal is an adjective meaning (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).

Meaning

(now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).

More Meanings

1. Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
2. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
3. (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.

Example Sentences

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

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

The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos.

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.

Word Forms

• vegetals

Synonyms for vegetal

Depending on context, synonyms include asexual, vegetative, vegetational, nonsexual.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vegetative, vegetational, nonsexual, asexual, botanical, crop.

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