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vegetal

See also: végétal and vegetál

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Borrowed from Late Latin vegetālis, from vegetō.

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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.]
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:
      Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].
  2. Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
    • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
      The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos.
    • 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.

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vegetal (plural vegetals)

  1. (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.

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Learned borrowing from Latin vegetālis.

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vegetal m or f (masculine and feminine plural vegetals)

  1. (relational) plant, vegetable; vegetal

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vegetal m (plural vegetals)

  1. plant, vegetable
    Synonym: planta

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vegetal (not comparable)

  1. vegetal, vegetable

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vegetal m (plural vegetaj)

  1. vegetable

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: ve‧ge‧tal

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vegetal m (plural vegetais)

  1. vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
    Synonyms: verdura f, planta f, erva f, hortaliça f
  2. (figuratively) vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)

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vegetal m or f (plural vegetais)

  1. (relational) plant
    célula vegetal ― plant cell

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Borrowed from French végétal.

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

  1. vegetal, vegetable

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Declension of vegetal
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite vegetal vegetală vegetali vegetale
definite vegetalul vegetala vegetalii vegetalele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite vegetal vegetale vegetali vegetale
definite vegetalului vegetalei vegetalilor vegetalelor

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bexeˈtal/ [be.xeˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ve‧ge‧tal

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vegetal m or f (masculine and feminine plural vegetales)

  1. vegetal

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vegetal m (plural vegetales)

  1. vegetable
    Synonym: verdura

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