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Herbaceousness vs Vegetal - What's the difference?

herbaceousness | vegetal |

As a noun herbaceousness

is the state or quality of being herbaceous.

As a verb vegetal is

to vegetate.

herbaceousness

English

Noun

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  • The state or quality of being herbaceous
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 27, author=Eric Asimov, title=The Evolution of Sauvignon Blanc, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=For the gooseberry-deprived among us, let’s just call it an instantly recognizable flavor that combines lemon, lime and tropical fruit with a sort of grassy herbaceousness . }}

    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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