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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.

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Etymology of 'Vegetal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... washed his body and on it put the blue burial robe with the white "anito" figures woven in it as a stripe. They fashioned a rude, high-back chair with a low seat, a sung-a'-chil (Pl. XLI), and bound the dead man in it, fastening him by bands about the waist, the arms, and head — the vegetal band entirely covering the open mouth. His hands were laid in his lap. The chair was set close up before the door of the house, with the corpse facing out. Four nights and days it remained there in full sight of ...

— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks

Words linked to "Vegetal" : vegetational, nonsexual, asexual, vegetative