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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



... fossil ages that we can supply the missing links of continuity. In the desperate struggle for existence no peculiarity, physical or psychical, however slight, has been too insignificant for natural selection to seize and enhance; and the myriad fantastic forms and hues of animal and vegetal life illustrate the seeming capriciousness of its workings. Psychical variations have never been unimportant since the appearance of the first faint pigment-spot which by and by was to translate touch into vision, as it developed into the lenses and humours of ...
— The Destiny of Man - Viewed in the Light of His Origin • John Fiske



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



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