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Webster 1913 Edition


Vegeto-animal

Veg′e-to-an′i-mal

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Adj.
(Biol.)
Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; – a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vegeto-animal

VEG'ETO-ANIMAL

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Adj.
Vegeto-animal matter, is a term formerly applied to vegetable gluten, which is found in the seeds of certain plants, in a state of union with farina or starch. It is remarkably elastic, and when dry, semi-transparent. By distillation it affords, like animal substances, alkaline water, concrete volatile alkali, and an empyreumatic oil.