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Vegetal vs Vegetative - What's the difference?

vegetal | vegetative |

As a verb vegetal

is to vegetate.

As an adjective vegetative is

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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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    vegetative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
  • (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
  • *
  • In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
  • Physically inactive.
  • (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
  • See also

    * comatose * brain dead ----