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Vegetal   Listen
adjective
Vegetal  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable. "All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational."
2.
(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.





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"Vegetal" Quotes from Famous Books



... her arms the moment it was born; and to keep it beside her in bed for seven days. At the end of the seven days she would die with her lips on the lips of the child, who would thus receive her reasonable soul, whereas before it had only possessed a vegetal soul. ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


Words linked to "Vegetal" :   nonsexual, vegetational


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