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Vegetable vs Plantal - What's the difference?

vegetable | plantal |

As adjectives the difference between vegetable and plantal

is that vegetable is of or relating to plants while plantal is (obsolete) belonging to plants.

As a noun vegetable

is any plant.

vegetable

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any plant.
  • A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.
  • The edible part of such a plant.
  • (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.

    • Synonyms

    * (derogatory term for a person with brain damage) cabbage

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to plants.
  • Of or relating to vegetables.

    • Related terms

    * vegan * vegetarian * vegetate * vegetation * veggie * vegetable oil

    External links

    * (wikipedia "vegetable") * 1000 English basic words

    plantal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Belonging to plants.
  • * Henry More, Immortality of the Soul
    • The most degenerate souls did at last sleep in the bodies of trees, and grew up merely into plantal life.
  • * 1807 , Andrónico de Rodas, The paraphrase of an anonymous Greek writer (page 25)
    • To live indeed is common also to plants; but we now investigate the peculiar work of man, so that the consideration about the plantal life must be dismissed.
  • * 1871 , George Chaplin Child, The great architect (page 263)
    • This sudden glimpse of the richness of southern vegetation is very delightful to a wanderer from Northern Europe who sees it for the first time, and it forms one of the most striking transitions in the aspect of plantal life
  • (obsolete) Of the nature of implanting or uniting.
  • * 1662 , , Appendix, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 151:
    • "That the Plantal faculty'' of the ''Soul'', whereby she is unitable to this terrestrial Body, is not arbitrarious, but fatal or natural; which union cannot be dissolved unless the bond of Life be loosened, and that ''vital congruity (which is in the Body, and does necessarily hold the Soul there) be either for a time hindred or utterly destroy'd."
    (Webster 1913)