vegetal — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cabbage noun A leafy vegetable grown as a round, tightly packed head, eaten cooked or raw.
- plant noun A living organism, typically rooted in soil, that makes its own food through photosynthesis — trees, flowers, grasses, and similar life forms.
- vegetable noun A plant, or part of a plant, grown to be eaten — such as the leaves, roots, or stems — that isn't classified as a fruit, grain, herb, or spice.
- vegetal adj Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).
- veggie noun An informal word for a vegetable.
Senses
vegetal is used for these senses in English:
- cabbage (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- plant (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- plant (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- vegetable Of or relating to plants.
- vegetable Any plant.
- vegetable A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
- vegetable (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
- vegetal Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
cabbage — full definition
- noun A leafy vegetable grown as a round, tightly packed head, eaten cooked or raw.
- noun (slang) Money.
- verb (informal, dated) To steal small amounts of something, especially fabric offcuts.
plant — full definition
- noun A living organism, typically rooted in soil, that makes its own food through photosynthesis — trees, flowers, grasses, and similar life forms.
- noun A factory or other building where an industrial process is carried out.
- noun An object or person secretly placed somewhere to deceive people, gather information, or make someone look guilty.
- verb To put a seed, seedling, or crop into soil so that it will grow.
- verb To place something or someone secretly, especially to create a false impression or set someone up.