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Definitions: Vegetal |
VegetalAdjective1. (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes. 2. Composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: VegetalSynonyms: vegetational (adj), vegetative (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vegetability| | Adjective: rank, lush; vegetable, vegetal, vegetive. |
Vegetable | Adjective: vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous; herbaceous, herbal; botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vegetal |
| English words defined with "vegetal": flourishing ♦ growing ♦ thriving ♦ Vegetality, vegetational, vegetative. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vegetal": coalify ♦ grenz. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vegetal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (plant, vegetable, vegetal), Romanian (plant, vegetable, vegetal), Spanish (cabbage, vegetable, vegetal). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pernicioso vegetal (2002) | |
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| "Vegetal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vegetal" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vegetal": vegetal-inspired. | |
Ending with "vegetal": animal-vegetal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cellular vegetal | 106 |
reino vegetal | 94 |
fisiologia vegetal | 53 |
carbon vegetal | 34 |
anatomia vegetal | 28 |
célula vegetal | 27 |
tejido vegetal | 19 |
histologia vegetal | 18 |
taxonomia vegetal | 17 |
vegetal | 16 |
carvão vegetal | 12 |
nutricion vegetal | 12 |
sanidad vegetal | 12 |
organologia vegetal | 10 |
cartoes de papel vegetal | 8 |
papel vegetal | 7 |
animal cellular vegetal | 7 |
respiracion vegetal | 7 |
manteca vegetal | 7 |
morfologia vegetal | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vegetal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vegjetal (vegetable), bimor (vegetable, vegetative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | â€Ù†Ø¨Ø§ØªÙŠ (botanical, phytophagous, vegetable, vegetarian, vegetative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | раÑтителен (green, organic, vegetable, vegetative), вегетарианÑки (veg, vegetable, vegetarian), зеленчуков (veg), безинтереÑен (characterless, chippy, dim, frumpish, incurious, languid, milk and water, mousey, sapless, soulless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, warmed-over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rostlinný (vegetative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vegetabilske affedningsmidler (vegetal defatting remedies, vegetal degreasing remedies), levende jorddaekke (living soil cover, vegetal cover), jordsplantedaekke (living soil cover, vegetal cover), jords vegetationsdaekke (living soil cover, vegetal cover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | plantenkleed (living soil cover, vegetal cover), dichtgroeien (vegetal invasion, weediness of the waters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kasvillisuuden spatiaalinen rakenne (spatial vegetal structure), ilmaston määräämä kasvillisuuskliimaksi (vegetal climatic climax), kasvien fossiiliset jäännökset (animal remain, vegetal remain), kasvifysiognomia (vegetal physiognomy), kasvillisuuden horisontaalinen rakenne (horizontal vegetal structure), kasvillisuuden palautumiskyky (vegetal reversibility), eläinten fossiiliset jäännökset (animal remain, vegetal remain), kasvillisuuden rappeutumistaso (vegetal degradation level), primaarikasvillisuuden sarja (primary vegetal series), kasvillisuuden stabiliteetti (vegetal stability), kasvillisuuden sukkessio (vegetal succession), kasvillisuuden tulenherkkyys (vegetal sensibility to fire), kasvillisuuden vertikaalinen rakenne (vertical vegetal structure), kasvillisuuskliimaksi (vegetal climax), maan kasvipeite (living soil cover, vegetal cover), kasvillisuuden peittävyys (vegetal coverage degree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | végétal (vegetable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vegetativ (asexual, autonomic, somatic, vegetative, vegetatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φυτώδησ, φυτικόσ (vegetable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צמחי (vegetable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | növényi (floral, vegetable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vegetativo (asexual, somatic, vegetative, vegetatively), vegetale (herbal, plant, vegetable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egetalvay vegetativo (asexual, autonomous, somatic, vegetative), vegetal (plant, vegetable). (various references) vegetal (plant, vegetable), plantã (plant, set). (various references) раÑтительный (floral, vegetable). (various references) vegetacijski, biljni (herbal). (various references) vegetal (cabbage, plant, vegetable). (various references) vegetativ (somatic, vegetative), växt- (vegetable). (various references) nebati, bitkisel (galenic, herbal, vegetable, vegetative). (various references) роÑлинний (floral, vegetable, vegetative), життÑ"вий (earthbound, earthy, live, vital, worldly), живий (above ground, alive, animate, live, lively, living, on the hoof, vivacious). (various references) thá»±c váºt (plant), cây cá» (affinity, vegetation, wort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Vegetal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Legentil, segetum, veeta, vegatal, vegeta, vegetals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vegetal" (pronounced ve"jutul) |
| 5 | -j u t u l | digital. |
| 4 | -u t u l | capital, Capitol, congenital, extramarital, genital, marital, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pivotal, premarital, skeletal, societal, versatile, volatile. |
| 3 | -t u l | accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, parental, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skittle, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vestal, vital, vittle, Whittle, Wintle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-t-v" | |
-1 letter: eaglet, gelate, legate, telega, velate. | |
-2 letters: aglee, aglet, eagle, elate, gavel, gleet, leave, telae, valet. | |
-3 letters: agee, alee, eave, egal, gale, gate, gave, gelt, geta, glee, late, lave, leet, leva, tael, tale, teal, teel, tela, tele, vale, veal, vela. | |
-4 letters: age, ale, alt, ate, ave, eat, eel, eta, eve, gae, gal, gat, gee, gel, get, lag, lat, lav, lea, lee, leg, let, lev, tae, tag, tav, tea, tee, teg, tel, vat, vee, veg, vet. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, al, at, el, et, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-t-v" | |
+1 letter: levigate. | |
+2 letters: elevating, levigated, levigates, vegetable, vegetably. | |
+3 letters: evangelist, negatively, regulative, travelogue, vegetables, wavelength. | |
+4 letters: evangelists, everlasting, legislative, overvoltage, travelogues, wavelengths. | |
+5 letters: derogatively, evangelistic, everlastings, festivalgoer, galvanometer, governmental, interleaving, intervillage, legislatives, overregulate, overvoltages, reevaluating, vegetational, vegetatively. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 67 65 74 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . --. . - .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01100111 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e g e t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0067 0065 0074 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56717371866778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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