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Definition of vegetal:

A 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.

Synonyms:

nonsexual, asexual, vegetable, vegetational, vegetative, vegetive.

floral (part of speech: adjective)
- herbal,
- floral,
- verdant
vegetal (part of speech: adjective)
- fruity,
- algal,
- herbal,
- fungal,
- grassy,
- mossy,
- floral,
- flowered,
- plant-like

Usage examples:

But in the lower animal grades and in the vegetal world the courting of life and the shrinking from death go on without conscious intelligence, as the blades of grass in a meadow or the clustering leaves upon a tree compete with one another for the maximum of exposure to sunshine until perhaps stout boughs and stems are warped or twisted in the struggle.

- "Life Everlasting", John Fiske.
Strong vegetal scents, aromatic and novel, rise up.

- "Two Years in the French West Indies", Lafcadio Hearn.
And the early breezes from the hills,- all cool out of the sleep of the forests, and heavy with vegetal odors thick, sappy, savage- sweet!

- "Two Years in the French West Indies", Lafcadio Hearn.