vegetal
/ˈvɛd͡ʒɪ̈tl̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).
Archaic
adj
Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
adj
Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
Example Sentences
- "Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […]."
- "The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos."
- "The Computer Center is muffled and dim, warm with whiffs of sourness, of body odor, and of the vegetal smells of dirt embedded in clothes that were advancing in the direction of compost."
- "This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: vegetō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪ̈tl̩/
- British English: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩/