Vegetal vs Winterkill - What's the difference?
vegetal | winterkill |
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Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
(wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
(obsolete, chiefly, botany) Any vegetable organism.
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The mortality resulting from lethal wintry conditions among a human, animal and/or vegetal population.
To kill by the conditions of winter, especially the effect of the cold, freezing.
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To die from the above effects of winter conditions.
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As nouns the difference between vegetal and winterkill
is that vegetal is any vegetable organism while winterkill is the mortality resulting from lethal wintry conditions among a human, animal, and/or vegetal population.As an adjective vegetal
is capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to {{term|sensible}} and {{term|rational}}).As a verb winterkill is
to kill by the conditions of winter, especially the effect of the cold, freezing.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.
