Definitions for vegetal

vegetal veg·e·tal

Spelling: [vej-i-tl]
IPA: /ˈvɛdʒ ɪ tl/

Vegetal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in vegetal (aeegltv).

Definitions for vegetal

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or of the nature of plants or vegetables.
  2. vegetative (def 5).

Origin of vegetal

1350-1400; Middle English Latin veget(āre) to quicken (see vegetate) + -al -al1

Examples for vegetal

This development imparts to vegetal nutrition an ever greater preponderance.

There is no pattern to rivet the eye; it has no certain relation to the vegetal, or floral, or animal kingdom.

Ehrenberg, however, holds that they are no more animal than vegetal forms.

Women: Waist-skirt of vegetal fibre or buckskin, and basketry cap; robe and moccasins on occasion.

Red is, indeed, the chief element of beauty in floral nature, the prime ornament of the green garb of the vegetal kingdom.

The lowest animal and vegetal forms—Protozoa and Protophyta—are chiefly inhabitants of the water.

More often than not, it will taste harsh and vegetal; possibly like a dead squirrel dipped in kerosene.

I am inclined to the view that here, as in 124 the preceding case, the resemblance to a vegetal growth is purely adventitious.

The number of species of vegetal organisms below this depth is extremely small.

Accordingly it has been adopted very wisely in nature as the common garb of the vegetal creation.

Word Value for vegetal
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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