vegetal
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩/
美 /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪ̈tl̩/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Any vegetable organism.
— This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
形容词 adj.
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Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).
— Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].
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Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
— The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos.
- Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
词源
词源 1
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō.
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō.
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