English

Adjective

vegetal ‎(comparative more vegetal, superlative most vegetal)

1. (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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 […].

2. Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
3. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

Translations

Noun

vegetal ‎(plural vegetals)

1. (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.
   • Burton

     This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.

Catalan

Adjective

vegetal m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural vegetals)

1. relating to plants or vegetables

Portuguese

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetais)

1. vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
2. (figuratively) vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)

Synonyms

• (edible material derived from a plant):, verdura f, planta f, erva f, hortaliça f

Adjective

vegetal m, f ‎(plural vegetais, comparable)

1. Relative to plants and vegetables

   Célula vegetal.

Spanish

Adjective

vegetal m, f ‎(plural vegetales)

1. vegetal

Noun

vegetal m ‎(plural vegetales)

1. vegetable

Synonyms

• verdura f