Vocabulary : Vega to Vegetating
Vega : An open tract of ground; a plain, esp. one which is moist and fertile, as those used for tobacco fields. ;; A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.Vegetability : The quality or state of being vegetable.
Vegetable : Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc. ;; Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom. ;; Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. ;; Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division. ;; A plant. See Plant. ;; A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
Vegetal : Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable. ;; Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals. ;; A vegetable.
Vegetality : The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable. ;; The quality or state of being vegetal, or exhibiting those physiological phenomena which are common to plants and animals. See Vegetal, a., 2.
