vegetal

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vegetālis, from vegetō.

adj

1. (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).
2. Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
   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. 2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241
3. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

noun

1. (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.