vegetaladj.n.

Brit.

/ˈvɛdʒᵻtl/, U.S.

/ˈvɛdʒədl/

Forms: late Middle English vegytalle, 1500s–1600s vegetall, 1500s–1600s vegital, 1500s–1600s vegitall, 1500s– vegetal, 1600s vygital.

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

Etymology: < post-classical Latin vegetalis (adjective) capable of growth (14th cent. in a British source), (noun) vegetable substance (15th cent.) < classical Latin vegetāre vegetate v. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Middle French vegetal , French végétal (noun, usually plural) plant (1575), (adjective) that gives growth to a plant (1611 in Cotgrave), consisting of plants, of or relating to plants (1625), Catalan vegetal (15th cent.), Spanish vegetal (early 15th cent.), Portuguese vegetal (15th cent.), Italian vegetale (a1625). Compare vegetable adj., vegetable n., vegetative adj.

A. adj.

1. Having or characterized by the property of growth and reproduction, but not those of sensation, movement, or reason. Frequently contrasted with sensible (or sensitive) and rational. Cf. vegetable adj. 1. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > living and growing

vegetablec1425

vegetal1490

sustenablea1500

vegetative1567

vegetated1697

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > life of vegetable > [adjective]

vegetal1490

vegetarya1595

vegetive1878

vegetative1893

1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos iv. sig. B.v ^v Whan..the naturel hete of blood humayn comforte my membris & made theym vegytalle wyth sencyble moeuynges.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vegetal, vegetall, hauing or giuing a (plant-like) life, increase,..or growing.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 14 All Creatures, Vegetall, Sensible, and Rationall.

1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 180 They can exert no acts but of Imagination, whence spring forth the powers of the Vegetal life.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §275 The inferior classes of life: first the rational, then the sensitive, after that the vegetal.

1754 S. Derrick tr. C. de Bergerac Voy. to Moon 105 She [sc. nature] is more immediately so [sc. a mother] to the vegetal, than the rational Production.

1852 H. Spencer Archit. Types in Ess. (1891) II. 377 That there is some relation between Gothic architecture and vegetal forms is generally admitted.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 393 The famous classic and mediæval theories of the vegetal, sensitive, and rational souls.

1995 R. Courtney Shakespeare's World of Death 242 The Tudors use Aristotle's division of the soul into the vegetal, the sensible, and the rational faculties.

2. Of, relating to, or obtained from plants or (in later use) vegetables (vegetable n. 3); consisting of plants or vegetables.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > [adjective]

vegetablea1500

vegetive1526

vegetant?1553

plantlike1567

vegetable1582

vegetal1596

plantal1642

vegetative1662

veg1765

vegetably1834

phytoid1853

phytiform1890

1596 J. Hester tr. Paracelsus Exper. & Cures (title page) Certaine Secrets of Isacke Hollandus concerning the Vegetall and Animall worke.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 343 Scorbutick pills are so prepared with noble vegetal extractions.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Lye Take this Lye, put into it an Ounce or two of vegetal Salt.

1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xxxvi. 140 Manna, Cassia, and vegetal Salt.

1850 Fraser's Mag. 41 300 Most of their vegetal riches might be matched in Covent Garden.

1879 G. Allen Colour-sense iii The bright hues of vegetal products like fruits and flowers.

1929 Bull. National Res. Council (U.S.) No. 74 89 Many of the vegetal foods..are derived from plants which were domesticated by the American Indian.

1941 E. H. Graham Legumes for Erosion Control & Wildlife 4 Soil must possess a vegetal cover to prevent erosion.

2008 Times (Nexis) 15 Nov. 89 To make soup base you need vegetal resources... My veg-list would include leeks, onions, carrots.., perhaps a turnip.

3. = vegetable adj. 3. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > [noun] > vegetable kingdom

vegetable kingdom1650

vegetal1658

vegetable creation1823

plant life1855

1658 G. Starkey Pyrotechny 89 The highest in the Vegetall Kingdome.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 61 The main..Agent in all Natures three Kingdoms Mineral, Vegetal, and Animal.

1804 C. Smith Conversations I. 71 The rose,..Pride of the vegetal creation.

1859 All Year Round 17 Dec. 175 This advice is equally just in regard to many other members of the vegetal world.

1872 Trans. Albany Inst. 7 329 In the vegetal division of life, the polar development prevails in the universally cylindrical form of trees and plants.

1904 Nature 24 Nov. 81/1 From such aggregates of bacteria, by common consent regarded as belonging to the vegetal kingdom, we have the production of typical animal organisms.

B. n.

1. = vegetable n. 1a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > [noun]

thingc1300

vegetablec1484

plantisouna1500

plantouna1500

vegetabilitya1500

vegetativea1500

plant1551

fellow creature1572

vegetal1591

morea1599

vegetive1602

vegetant1605

vegetationa1641

1591 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Breefe Aunswere Expos. I. Aubertus f. 16^v There be some which seek the matter of their Elixir not in vegitals or animalls, but in thinges vnder the earth and neerer.

1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. Ci^v He knawes..The vertue of all kinde of fruits, and euerie vegetal.

c1640 E. Waller For Drinking of Healths 1 Let brutes and vegetals, that cannot think, So far as drought and nature urges, drink.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 188 All th'other Members shall..Spring out of this, as from a Seed, All sorts of Vegetals proceed.

1701 M. S. Female Critick xx. 50 I found myself represented in your Letter for a Monster, patch'd up out of Animals, Vegetals, and Minerals.

1713 Brit. Curiosities sig. A3 I have only here (as the Simpler doth his Vegetals) collected various kinds of the most observable materials for contemplation.

1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. 112 The largest species of both animals and vegetals belong to the highest classes.

1883 Grevillea 12 45 Starch and chlorophyll, two prominent constituents of other vegetals, are absent in fungi.

1907 A. T. de Mattos tr. M. Maeterlinck Meas. of Hours 268 Among the vegetals that give the most striking proofs of intelligence and initiative, the plants which might be described as ‘animate’ or ‘sentient’ deserve to be studied in detail.

†2. figurative. A person who leads a monotonous or uneventful life. Cf. vegetable n. 2(a). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > life of vegetable > [noun] > person living

vegetal1626

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. iii. 244 A great number of men are now a dayes vegetalls [Fr. vegetaux], that is to say, who so liue, as if they had no other soule but the vegetatiue, as plantes, and lead the very life of the mushrome.

Compounds

vegetal pole n. Embryology the lower pole of an ovum or a young embryo, which divides more slowly than the upper (animal) pole and in telolecithal ova contains most of the yolk; cf. vegetative pole n. at vegetative adj. and n. Compounds; contrasted with animal pole.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid > fertilized ovum and parts

primitive streak1833

mulberry mass1851

morule1857

morula1875

stirp1875

cytula1876

vegetative pole1876

genoblast1877

mulberry germ1879

parent kernel1879

vegetal pole1881

animal pole1882

amphiaster1885

oosperm1888

segmentation sphere1898

1881 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 1 26 The narrower end, pushed towards the vegetal pole, is segmented off like a bud.

1914 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. iii. 92 The vegetal pole is frequently occupied largely by the relatively inert food substance, the materials in general related with the vegetative organs of the developing embryo.

1947 L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 5) ii. 31 At the other end of the polar axis is the vegetal pole. Its territory tends to be more sluggish and is concerned with the development of nutrient organs.

2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 12383/1 The four micromeres are segregated off from the vegetal pole of the egg.

Derivatives

ˈvegetally adv. (a) as regards plants; using plants; (b) Embryology towards or at the vegetal pole.

ΚΠ

1843 New Age 20 May 24/1 In case of..peculiar wills, differing with the law of climature, as affecting diet, those possessing these..shall have the freedom of following them out, either vegetally or animally.

1910 P. Lowell Evol. of Worlds iii. 90 Our seasons which both vegetally and vitally mean so much are absent [on other planets].

1977 J. Cohen Reprod. viii. 145 (caption) Nuclear contents (‘sap’) and cortical plasm stream vegetally.

1981 Developmental Biol. 83 370 To examine electrophysiological properties of individual blastomeres, the vegetally located polar lobe and 2 animal pole..cells were separated.

2003 E. Eiland Oriental Rugs Today iv. 78/2 Their newest creation is a vegetally dyed, handspun carpet.

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

单词	vegetal
释义	vegetaladj.n. Brit. /ˈvɛdʒᵻtl/, U.S. /ˈvɛdʒədl/ Forms: late Middle English vegytalle, 1500s–1600s vegetall, 1500s–1600s vegital, 1500s–1600s vegitall, 1500s– vegetal, 1600s vygital. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin vegetalis. Etymology: < post-classical Latin vegetalis (adjective) capable of growth (14th cent. in a British source), (noun) vegetable substance (15th cent.) < classical Latin vegetāre vegetate v. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Middle French vegetal , French végétal (noun, usually plural) plant (1575), (adjective) that gives growth to a plant (1611 in Cotgrave), consisting of plants, of or relating to plants (1625), Catalan vegetal (15th cent.), Spanish vegetal (early 15th cent.), Portuguese vegetal (15th cent.), Italian vegetale (a1625). Compare vegetable adj., vegetable n., vegetative adj. A. adj. 1. Having or characterized by the property of growth and reproduction, but not those of sensation, movement, or reason. Frequently contrasted with sensible (or sensitive) and rational. Cf. vegetable adj. 1. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > living and growing vegetablec1425 vegetal1490 sustenablea1500 vegetative1567 vegetated1697 the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > life of vegetable > [adjective] vegetal1490 vegetarya1595 vegetive1878 vegetative1893 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos iv. sig. B.v ^v Whan..the naturel hete of blood humayn comforte my membris & made theym vegytalle wyth sencyble moeuynges. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vegetal, vegetall, hauing or giuing a (plant-like) life, increase,..or growing. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 14 All Creatures, Vegetall, Sensible, and Rationall. 1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 180 They can exert no acts but of Imagination, whence spring forth the powers of the Vegetal life. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §275 The inferior classes of life: first the rational, then the sensitive, after that the vegetal. 1754 S. Derrick tr. C. de Bergerac Voy. to Moon 105 She [sc. nature] is more immediately so [sc. a mother] to the vegetal, than the rational Production. 1852 H. Spencer Archit. Types in Ess. (1891) II. 377 That there is some relation between Gothic architecture and vegetal forms is generally admitted. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 393 The famous classic and mediæval theories of the vegetal, sensitive, and rational souls. 1995 R. Courtney Shakespeare's World of Death 242 The Tudors use Aristotle's division of the soul into the vegetal, the sensible, and the rational faculties. 2. Of, relating to, or obtained from plants or (in later use) vegetables (vegetable n. 3); consisting of plants or vegetables. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [adjective] vegetablea1500 vegetive1526 vegetant?1553 plantlike1567 vegetable1582 vegetal1596 plantal1642 vegetative1662 veg1765 vegetably1834 phytoid1853 phytiform1890 1596 J. Hester tr. Paracelsus Exper. & Cures (title page) Certaine Secrets of Isacke Hollandus concerning the Vegetall and Animall worke. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 343 Scorbutick pills are so prepared with noble vegetal extractions. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Lye Take this Lye, put into it an Ounce or two of vegetal Salt. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xxxvi. 140 Manna, Cassia, and vegetal Salt. 1850 Fraser's Mag. 41 300 Most of their vegetal riches might be matched in Covent Garden. 1879 G. Allen Colour-sense iii The bright hues of vegetal products like fruits and flowers. 1929 Bull. National Res. Council (U.S.) No. 74 89 Many of the vegetal foods..are derived from plants which were domesticated by the American Indian. 1941 E. H. Graham Legumes for Erosion Control & Wildlife 4 Soil must possess a vegetal cover to prevent erosion. 2008 Times (Nexis) 15 Nov. 89 To make soup base you need vegetal resources... My veg-list would include leeks, onions, carrots.., perhaps a turnip. 3. = vegetable adj. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] > vegetable kingdom vegetable kingdom1650 vegetal1658 vegetable creation1823 plant life1855 1658 G. Starkey Pyrotechny 89 The highest in the Vegetall Kingdome. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 61 The main..Agent in all Natures three Kingdoms Mineral, Vegetal, and Animal. 1804 C. Smith Conversations I. 71 The rose,..Pride of the vegetal creation. 1859 All Year Round 17 Dec. 175 This advice is equally just in regard to many other members of the vegetal world. 1872 Trans. Albany Inst. 7 329 In the vegetal division of life, the polar development prevails in the universally cylindrical form of trees and plants. 1904 Nature 24 Nov. 81/1 From such aggregates of bacteria, by common consent regarded as belonging to the vegetal kingdom, we have the production of typical animal organisms. B. n. 1. = vegetable n. 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] thingc1300 vegetablec1484 plantisouna1500 plantouna1500 vegetabilitya1500 vegetativea1500 plant1551 fellow creature1572 vegetal1591 morea1599 vegetive1602 vegetant1605 vegetationa1641 1591 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Breefe Aunswere Expos. I. Aubertus f. 16^v There be some which seek the matter of their Elixir not in vegitals or animalls, but in thinges vnder the earth and neerer. 1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. Ci^v He knawes..The vertue of all kinde of fruits, and euerie vegetal. c1640 E. Waller For Drinking of Healths 1 Let brutes and vegetals, that cannot think, So far as drought and nature urges, drink. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 188 All th'other Members shall..Spring out of this, as from a Seed, All sorts of Vegetals proceed. 1701 M. S. Female Critick xx. 50 I found myself represented in your Letter for a Monster, patch'd up out of Animals, Vegetals, and Minerals. 1713 Brit. Curiosities sig. A3 I have only here (as the Simpler doth his Vegetals) collected various kinds of the most observable materials for contemplation. 1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. 112 The largest species of both animals and vegetals belong to the highest classes. 1883 Grevillea 12 45 Starch and chlorophyll, two prominent constituents of other vegetals, are absent in fungi. 1907 A. T. de Mattos tr. M. Maeterlinck Meas. of Hours 268 Among the vegetals that give the most striking proofs of intelligence and initiative, the plants which might be described as ‘animate’ or ‘sentient’ deserve to be studied in detail. †2. figurative. A person who leads a monotonous or uneventful life. Cf. vegetable n. 2(a). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > life of vegetable > [noun] > person living vegetal1626 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. iii. 244 A great number of men are now a dayes vegetalls [Fr. vegetaux], that is to say, who so liue, as if they had no other soule but the vegetatiue, as plantes, and lead the very life of the mushrome. Compounds vegetal pole n. Embryology the lower pole of an ovum or a young embryo, which divides more slowly than the upper (animal) pole and in telolecithal ova contains most of the yolk; cf. vegetative pole n. at vegetative adj. and n. Compounds; contrasted with animal pole. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid > fertilized ovum and parts primitive streak1833 mulberry mass1851 morule1857 morula1875 stirp1875 cytula1876 vegetative pole1876 genoblast1877 mulberry germ1879 parent kernel1879 vegetal pole1881 animal pole1882 amphiaster1885 oosperm1888 segmentation sphere1898 1881 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 1 26 The narrower end, pushed towards the vegetal pole, is segmented off like a bud. 1914 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. iii. 92 The vegetal pole is frequently occupied largely by the relatively inert food substance, the materials in general related with the vegetative organs of the developing embryo. 1947 L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 5) ii. 31 At the other end of the polar axis is the vegetal pole. Its territory tends to be more sluggish and is concerned with the development of nutrient organs. 2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 12383/1 The four micromeres are segregated off from the vegetal pole of the egg. Derivatives ˈvegetally adv. (a) as regards plants; using plants; (b) Embryology towards or at the vegetal pole. ΚΠ 1843 New Age 20 May 24/1 In case of..peculiar wills, differing with the law of climature, as affecting diet, those possessing these..shall have the freedom of following them out, either vegetally or animally. 1910 P. Lowell Evol. of Worlds iii. 90 Our seasons which both vegetally and vitally mean so much are absent [on other planets]. 1977 J. Cohen Reprod. viii. 145 (caption) Nuclear contents (‘sap’) and cortical plasm stream vegetally. 1981 Developmental Biol. 83 370 To examine electrophysiological properties of individual blastomeres, the vegetally located polar lobe and 2 animal pole..cells were separated. 2003 E. Eiland Oriental Rugs Today iv. 78/2 Their newest creation is a vegetally dyed, handspun carpet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1490
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