Associations to the word «Vegetal»

Wiktionary

VEGETAL, adjective. (now rare) (historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
VEGETAL, adjective. Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
VEGETAL, adjective. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
VEGETAL, noun. (obsolete) (chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.
VEGETAL POLE, noun. (embryology) The hemisphere of the blastula opposite to the animal pole comprising of large yolk cells dividing at a slower rate that eventually differentiate into the extraembryonic membranes.

Dictionary definition

VEGETAL, adjective. Composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor".
VEGETAL, adjective. (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes.

Wise words

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Joseph Conrad