Vegetal

a. [Fr. végétal, Sp. vegetal, It. vegetale. See VEGETE.]

1Sense 1. Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a vegetable; vegetable. “All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational.” Burton.

2Sense 2. (Physiol.) Of, or pertaining to, that class of vital phenomena common to plants and animals, namely, digestion and nutritive assimilation, growth, absorption, secretion, excretion, circulation, respiration, and generation, as contradistinguished from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals. Brande.

n. A vegetable. [Rare.]