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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vegetal  \Veg"e*tal\,  n.  [F.] 
  A  vegetable.  [R.]  --B.  Jonson 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  vegetal 
  adj  1:  (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}] 




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