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Floral vs Vegetal - What's the difference?

floral | vegetal |

As an adjective floral

is of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.

As a noun floral

is a design.

As a verb vegetal is

to vegetate.

floral

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.
  • Portraying flowers, especially in a stylized way.
    • I really like the floral pattern on this Chinese vase.

    Related terms

    * flora

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A design.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 11, author=Marianne Rohrlich, title=Grandma’s Wallpaper Gets Funky, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=FUNKY, bold and bright, many new wallpapers offer a modern twist on fussy old damasks and florals . }}

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    vegetal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *, III.2.1.i:
    • Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].
  • Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
  • (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, chiefly, botany) Any vegetable organism.
  • * Burton
    • This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
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