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Vegetal vs Vegetality - What's the difference?

vegetal | vegetality |

As a verb vegetal

is to vegetate.

As a noun vegetality is

(biology) the quality or state of being vegetal.

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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    vegetality

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (biology) The quality or state of being vegetal.
    • (Webster 1913)