Vegetal vs Vegetative - What's the difference?
vegetal | vegetative |
*, III.2.1.i:
Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
(wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
(obsolete, chiefly, botany) Any vegetable organism.
* Burton
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.
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Physically inactive.
(medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
As a verb vegetal
is to vegetate.As an adjective vegetative is
.vegetal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].
Noun
(en noun)- This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
vegetative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.