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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩/
• (General American) enPR: vĕjʹĭ-tl, IPA: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪ̈tl̩/
• 韻: -ɛdʒɪtəl
• ハイフネーション 英国発音: ve‧ge‧tal, 米国発音: veg‧e‧tal

形容詞

vegetal (comparative more vegetal, superlative most vegetal)

1. (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:

     Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].

2. Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
   • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:

     The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos.

   • 2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241:

     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.

3. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

派生語

• vegetality
• vegetally
• vegetal parchment
• vegetal pole
• vegetaline

名詞

vegetal (plural vegetals)

1. (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.

アナグラム

• gavelet