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- English Word Vegetable Definition Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
- English Word Vegetable Definition A plant. See Plant.
- English Word Vegetable Definition A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
- English Word Vegetal Definition Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.
- English Word Vegetal Definition 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.
- English Word Vegetal Definition A vegetable.
- English Word Vegetality Definition The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable.
- English Word Vegetality Definition The quality or state of being vegetal, or exhibiting those physiological phenomena which are common to plants and animals. See Vegetal, a., 2.
- English Word Vegetarian Definition One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.
- English Word Vegetarian Definition Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.
- English Word Vegetarianism Definition The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.
- English Word Vegetate Definition To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
- English Word Vegetate Definition Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.
- English Word Vegetate Definition To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
- English Word Vegetated Definition of Vegetate
- English Word Vegetating Definition of Vegetate
- English Word Vegetation Definition The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
- English Word Vegetation Definition The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
- English Word Vegetation Definition An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
- English Word Vegetative Definition Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
- English Word Vegetative Definition Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
- English Word Vegetative Definition Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal.
- English Word Vegete Definition Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.
- English Word Vegetive Definition Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life.
- English Word Vegetive Definition A vegetable.
- English Word Vegeto-animal Definition Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.
- English Word Vegetous Definition Vigorous; lively; active; vegete.
- English Word Vehemence Definition The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.
- English Word Vehemence Definition Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions.
- English Word Vehemency Definition Vehemence.