Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Vegetal \Veg"e*tal\, a. [F. v['e]g['e]tal. See {Vegetable}.]
   1. Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom;
      of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.

            All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational.
                                                  --Burton.

   2. (Biol.) 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.

Vegetal \Veg"e*tal\, n. [F.]
   A vegetable. [R.] --B. Jonson.

Source : WordNet®

vegetal
     adj 1: (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes [syn: {vegetative}]
     2: composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal
        products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative
        layer covering a forest floor" [syn: {vegetational}, {vegetative}]