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Vegetal

Vegetal \Veg"e*tal\, a. [F. v['e]g['e]tal. See Vegetable.]

  1. Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.

    All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational.
    --Burton.

  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.

Vegetal

Vegetal \Veg"e*tal\, n. [F.] A vegetable. [R.]
--B. Jonson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vegetal

c.1400, from Medieval Latin *vegetalis, from Latin vegetare (see vegetable (adj.)).

Wiktionary
vegetal

a. 1 (context now rare historical English) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to (term: sensible) and (term: rational)). (from 15th c.) 2 Pertaining to vegetables or plants. (from 16th c.) 3 (context wine English) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste. n. (context obsolete chiefly botany English) Any vegetable organism.

WordNet
vegetal
  1. adj. (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes [syn: vegetative]

  2. composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor" [syn: vegetational, vegetative]

Wikipedia
Végétal

Végétal is the second studio album by singer-songwriter Émilie Simon. Overall, it is her third album, the soundtrack to the French version of March of the Penguins included. The album has a floral theme running through it. All the lyrics relate to plants and there are also sounds taken from actual plants. The CD can be used in Émilie Simon's official website to access exclusive content such as bonus tracks, remixes, and a music video for "Fleur De Saison".

A special edition of the album was released in December 2006, featuring bonus tracks, remixes of "Fleur De Saison" and Opium, an exclusive short film on the making of the album and the video clip for "Fleur De Saison" on a bonus CD. So far, 5 editions of Végétal exists, each one different from each other through the inclusion of extras and bonuses.

Vegetal

Vegetal, the adjectival form of vegetable, can be

  • Vegetal (wine), a descriptive term used in wine tasting
  • Végétal, the second studio album by singer-songwriter Émilie Simon
  • the vegetal pole in biology, see Polarity in embryogenesis
See also
  • Vegetale, a 1997 album by the French band Ulan Bator

Usage examples of "vegetal".

A very vegetal: discourse of state, Of mathematics, bawdry, any thing -- MAM.

There remains the vegetal principle which might seem to suggest the possibility that, in this phase, the soul may be the inseparable Entelechy of the doctrine.

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.

Pleasingly vegetal, Gyokuro offers a full green flavor with a slightly sweet finish.

Both these depend upon the existence of that principle of vegetal life and generation by which the body becomes an organism aware of pleasure and pain: this principle it was that made the body a thing of bile and bitterness, and thus it leads the indwelling soul-phase to corresponding states--churlish and angry under stress of environment--so that being wronged itself, it tries, as we may put it, to return the wrong upon its surroundings, and bring them to the same condition.

Ce puissant paysagiste ne sentait la beaute et la laideur que dans le monde vegetal.

Long ago, in the glorious days of the Great World before the coming of the death-stars, these insect-beings had built vast hivelike cities in the lands that were too dry for humans and vegetals or too cold for sapphire-eyes or too moist for mechanicals.

Temporarily blinded by daylight, we stepped through into a rich vegetal tangle of green vines, smooth branches, spreading leaves, helical creepers and aerial roots, melted ferns, pendulous waxy fruits: an orgy of green growth.

They made a blastula inside my skull, dividing again and again, with their animal pole at my left ear and their vegetal pole at my right.

The fields, the far-flung quilt of treelines over the hills, giant hermit oaks, swollen and crooked with vegetal muscle!

The vegetals and the sapphire-eyes people knew that they would not survive, and they made their preparations accordingly.

Fragmentary accounts of the Great World is what they were: what seemed to be tales of how the Six Peoples had lived in harmony on the earth, humans and hjjk-folk and vegetals and mechanicals and sea-lords and sapphire-eyes.

That was when the sapphire-eyes perished, for their blood was cold and they could not abide freezing weather, and the vegetals died also, having been fashioned out of plant cells and being unable to bear the frost.

Any moment, he imagined, sapphire-eyes or vegetals or sea-lords might come sauntering out of that building of swooping parapets over there, or this one that rose in delicate filigreed arches that looked like frozen music, or that one of the yellow towers and wide-jutting wings.

He saw himself striding down the throbbing streets of Vengiboneeza, moving through the turmoil and frenzy of a marketplace where members of the Six Peoples jostled one another by the thousands, sea-lords, vegetals, hjjks, sapphire-eyes, shoulder to shoulder.