Index of English words, starting with "ve"

(1) - Vegetal (n.) A vegetable.
(2) - Vegetal (a.) 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.
(3) - Vegetal (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.

(1) - Vegetarian (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.
(2) - Vegetarian (n.) One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.

(1) - Vegetarianism (n.) The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.

(1) - Vegetate (v. i.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
(2) - Vegetate (v. i.) Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.
(3) - Vegetate (v. i.) To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

(1) - Vegetation (n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
(2) - Vegetation (n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
(3) - Vegetation (n.) The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.