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Vegetal

Definitions: Vegetal

Vegetal

Adjective

1. (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: Vegetal

Synonyms: vegetational (adj), vegetative (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Vegetal

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Vegetal

English words defined with "vegetal": flourishinggrowingthrivingVegetality, vegetational, vegetative. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vegetal": coalifygrenz. (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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Modern Usage: Vegetal

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Pernicioso vegetal (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Vegetal

DomainTitle

Books

  • Biotecnologia Vegetal (reference)

  • Citologia E Histologia Vegetal y Animal (reference)

  • Differentiation and Harmony-- Vegetal, Animal, Human (Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 57) (reference)

  • Elementos de Virologia Vegetal (reference)

  • Fertilizantes Nutricion Vegetal (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Vegetal

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2668,323

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Vegetal

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "vegetal": vegetal-inspired.

Ending with "vegetal": animal-vegetal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vegetal

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Vegetal

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

   

Portuguese

  

vegetativo (asexual, autonomous, somatic, vegetative), vegetal (plant, vegetable). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vegetal (plant, vegetable), plantã (plant, set). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раÑтительный (floral, vegetable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vegetacijski, biljni (herbal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vegetal (cabbage, plant, vegetable). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vegetativ (somatic, vegetative), växt- (vegetable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

nebati, bitkisel (galenic, herbal, vegetable, vegetative). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thực vật (plant), cây cỠ(affinity, vegetation, wort). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Vegetal

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).

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Rhyming with "Vegetal"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "vegetal" (pronounced ve"jutul)
5-j u t u ldigital.
4-u t u lcapital, Capitol, congenital, extramarital, genital, marital, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pivotal, premarital, skeletal, societal, versatile, volatile.
3-t u laccidental, 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.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Vegetal

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Vegetal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 65 67 65 74 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100101 01100111 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#103 &#101 &#116 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 0067 0065 0074 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56717371866778

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INDEX

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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