vegeto-comb. form

1824 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 386 Mr. Hume, jun. of Long Acre, is said to have discovered a vegeto-alkaline principle in Jalap, and proposes to call it Jalapine.

1869 P. A. Nuttall Dict. Sci. Terms 228 Narcine, a vegeto-alkaline base contained in opium.

1781 W. Grant Some Observ. Atrabilious Const. & Gout: Chap. IV 50 Nothing admits of so much variety as those vegeto-animal broths, which may be so prepared as to answer every purpose of diet.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 65 Composts of vegetable or vegeto-animal matter and earth are of various kinds.

1913 F. L. Sargent Plants & their Uses xiii. 573 A considerable number of these vegeto-animal organisms have been claimed alike by botanist and zoölogists.

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 40 By Inflammable substances I understand all those of Mineral Origin whose principal character is Inflammability... Of these the simplest kinds may be reduced to six Genera, namely the Aeriform, the Bituminous, Carbonaceous, Vegeto-Carbonaceous, Vegeto-Bituminous, and the Sulphureous.

1818 J. Sowerby Min. Conchol. Great Brit. II. 89 Fig. 1 shows a specimen from a slaty Clay impregnated with vegeto-bituminous matter.

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 40 By Inflammable substances I understand all those of Mineral Origin whose principal character is Inflammability... Of these the simplest kinds may be reduced to six Genera, namely the Aeriform, the Bituminous, Carbonaceous, Vegeto-Carbonaceous, Vegeto-Bituminous, and the Sulphureous.

1811 J. Sowerby Brit. Mineral. IV. 63 The detached pieces adhere rather strongly..; a character which I have known brick-makers to call water-bound. I believe it to be a vegeto-carbonaceous binding, if I may term it so.

1882 J. Wylde Industries of World II. 533/1 It is well known that hemp, and many other vegeto-carbonaceous materials, if exposed to air and moisture, become heated.

1820 Gentlemen's Mag. May 446/1 I digested this mass with concentrated alcohol, by which the vegeto-sulphuric acid was dissolved.

1868 C. Knight Arts & Sci. VII. 883 With sulphuric acid, instead of being charred, as cane sugar is, it forms a compound called..vegeto-sulphuric or sulphamidonic acid, which gives no precipitate with the salts of barium.

1901 Chem. News 21 June 292/2 At one time or another these compounds have been called by several different names—for example, vegeto-sulphuric acid, sulpholignic acid, [etc.].

1821 A. Ure Dict. Chem. at Picrotoxia It may therefore be regarded as a vegeto-alkali itself.

1855 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 145 211 The beautiful fluorescence exhibited by a solution of the inner bark of the horse-chestnut is due to the presence of the vegeto-alkali æsculine in a free state.

1918 W. M. Barr Industr. Engin. I. iv. 201 It [sc. alcohol] dissolves many organic substances, such as the vegeto-alkalies, resins, essential oils and various other bodies.

1833 W. Barton Prodrome Work to aid Teaching Veg. Materia Medica 46 Dr. Serturer obtained another vegeto-alkaloid from the Peruvian barks which he called Chinioidia.

1887 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 31 Oct. 641/1 Another useful vegeto-alkaloid, exhibited in fine crystalline condition, is Colchicine. It is found in all parts of the meadow saffron.

1909 Nature 2 Sept. 286/2 Though much has been done of late years to unravel the nature of vegeto-alkaloids, substances such as quinine are still only partially deciphered.

1830 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 17 385 M. Dulong has obtained a particular vegeto-principle from the roots of Plumbago Europæa.

1887 A. M. Brown Treat. Animal Alkaloids ii. vi. 59 The vegeto-veratrine does not reduce the ferricyanide.