vegetal
/ˈvɛdʒɪt(ə)l
/adjective
1 formal Relating to plants: a vegetal aroma...
- In addition, there are unpleasant, though mild, vegetal aromas present.
- Wearing masks made of wood, cloth, or vegetal fiber, performers dance in honor of the spirit forces of the particular body of water that runs through their community.
- But there is a rich, firm finish, with a slight vegetal character, which makes for a sophisticated and complex wine.
2 [attributive] Embryology Relating to that pole of the ovum or embryo that contains the less active cytoplasm, and frequently most of the yolk, in the early stages of development: vegetal cells the vegetal region...
- The vegetal yolk cell specifies the position of the shield.
- When embryos are exposed to UV irradiation on the vegetal hemisphere they are completely ventralized and form no dorsal structures.
Origin
Late Middle English: from medieval Latin vegetalis, from Latin vegetare 'animate'. sense 2 dates from the early 20th century.
- water horse
- water horsetail
- Waterhouse, Alfred
- Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome
- water hyacinth
- water hyssop
- water ice
- water icing
- waterily
- wateriness
- watering bridle
- watering call
- watering can
- watering cap
- watering cart
- watering hole
- watering-house
- watering pan
- watering party
- watering place
- watering pot
- watering slip
- watering snaffle
- watering stone
- water injection