vegetabilityn.

Brit.

/ˌvɛdʒᵻtəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌvɛdʒədəˈbɪlᵻdi/

Forms: late Middle English vegetabilitez (plural), 1600s– vegetability.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin vegetabilitas.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin vegetabilitas power of growth (from 12th cent. in British sources) < vegetabilis vegetable adj. + classical Latin -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Old French vegetablete plant (13th cent. in isolated use), French végétabilité capability of vegetative growth (1814), faculty of feeding plants (1876), Catalan vegetabilitat (14th cent.), Spanish vegetabilidad (18th cent.), Italian vegetabilità (a1673).

†1. A plant. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > [noun]

thingc1300

vegetablec1484

plantisouna1500

plantouna1500

vegetabilitya1500

vegetativea1500

plant1551

fellow creature1572

vegetal1591

morea1599

vegetive1602

vegetant1605

vegetationa1641

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 90 It shewys opynly..þat euerylk kende of vegetabilitez haues a propre ordre, þat ys, complexioun.

2. Vegetable character, quality, or nature (see vegetable adj. 2b). In later use also: the ability to grow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > [noun] > nature or quality of being a plant

vegetability1646

vegetality1849

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 91 [The] lapidificall juyce of the Sea, which entring the parts of that plant [sc. coral], overcomes its vegetability, and converts it into a lapideous substance.

1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2035 A description of sundry new Metals, or Semi-metals, as he calls them; together with a discourse of their Vegetability.

1707 T. Heton Some Acct. Mines 115 The Vegetability of Metals.

1788 J. St. John Lett. from France I. 186 Nobody will dispute the vegetability of trees.

1854 Fraser's Mag. 50 192 If any additional proofs of the vegetability of coral-lines were needed.

1887 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 93 216 Sunlight rapidly suppresses the vegetability of the spores.

1920 Med. Rec. 24 July 149/1 Virulence may be defined as vegetability in vivo, and must be distinguished from the toxigenous power.

1958 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper. Sci. VII. xxvii. 140 It [sc. nitre] also is called..the principle of animality in the brain, of vegetability in the liver and nutritive parts, of vitality in the heart.

2001 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 22 Oct. b5 Pumpkins inhabit the nth degree of vegetability. They're burlesque.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	vegetability
释义	vegetabilityn. Brit. /ˌvɛdʒᵻtəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌvɛdʒədəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Forms: late Middle English vegetabilitez (plural), 1600s– vegetability. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin vegetabilitas. Etymology: < post-classical Latin vegetabilitas power of growth (from 12th cent. in British sources) < vegetabilis vegetable adj. + classical Latin -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Old French vegetablete plant (13th cent. in isolated use), French végétabilité capability of vegetative growth (1814), faculty of feeding plants (1876), Catalan vegetabilitat (14th cent.), Spanish vegetabilidad (18th cent.), Italian vegetabilità (a1673). †1. A plant. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] thingc1300 vegetablec1484 plantisouna1500 plantouna1500 vegetabilitya1500 vegetativea1500 plant1551 fellow creature1572 vegetal1591 morea1599 vegetive1602 vegetant1605 vegetationa1641 a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 90 It shewys opynly..þat euerylk kende of vegetabilitez haues a propre ordre, þat ys, complexioun. 2. Vegetable character, quality, or nature (see vegetable adj. 2b). In later use also: the ability to grow. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] > nature or quality of being a plant vegetability1646 vegetality1849 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 91 [The] lapidificall juyce of the Sea, which entring the parts of that plant [sc. coral], overcomes its vegetability, and converts it into a lapideous substance. View more context for this quotation 1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2035 A description of sundry new Metals, or Semi-metals, as he calls them; together with a discourse of their Vegetability. 1707 T. Heton Some Acct. Mines 115 The Vegetability of Metals. 1788 J. St. John Lett. from France I. 186 Nobody will dispute the vegetability of trees. 1854 Fraser's Mag. 50 192 If any additional proofs of the vegetability of coral-lines were needed. 1887 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 93 216 Sunlight rapidly suppresses the vegetability of the spores. 1920 Med. Rec. 24 July 149/1 Virulence may be defined as vegetability in vivo, and must be distinguished from the toxigenous power. 1958 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper. Sci. VII. xxvii. 140 It [sc. nitre] also is called..the principle of animality in the brain, of vegetability in the liver and nutritive parts, of vitality in the heart. 2001 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 22 Oct. b5 Pumpkins inhabit the nth degree of vegetability. They're burlesque. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1500
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