VEGETAL • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Vegetal

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

adjective

Vegetal adj.

Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable. "All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational."

(Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals.

See images of 'Vegetal'

Etymology of 'Vegetal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Vegetal" Quotes from Famous Books

... leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales Especes qui s'y rapportent; precedee d'une introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du Vegetal et des autres corps naturels; enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie. Paris, mars 1815 a aout 1822. 7 vol. 8vo. 2e edit., Paris, 1835-45. ...

— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard

Words linked to "Vegetal" : nonsexual, vegetative