vegetal

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Hence has arisen our present rigid division of phenomena, into the worlds of the inorganic, vegetal, and sentient.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of plants.
  2. adjective Relating to growth rather than to sexual reproduction; vegetative.

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  • Once I had put one under the microscope, though, I realized that they were vegetal, and also that they were artificial. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
  • Well, that's all well and good, if you're producing bucketfuls of vegetal waste each day in a pro kitchen, but ... what's that? —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • To determine whether the Pmar1-responsive EM-GRN resolved by the above experiments accurately describes the GRN response to ActivinB signaling in vegetal blastomeres during normal sea urchin development, we characterized the requirement for ALK4 / 5 / 7-ActivinB function in pregastrular endomesoderm specification. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • The late accumulation of each of these transcripts in vegetal blastomeres was independent of ALK4 / 5 / 7 (e and f vs. a and b) and ActivinB (g and h vs. c and d) function at the stages assayed. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • The optical section is slightly oblique with respect to the animal-vegetal axis, and z13-expressing cells are at the bottom. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetāre, to enliven; see vegetable.

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  1. from Old French végétal, French vegetal = Spanish Portuguese vegetal = Italian vegetale, from Latin vegetus, living, lively: see vegetate.
 

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