Barbara Kingsolver

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

American Novelist

Julian Casablancas

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

American Musician

Used in academic contexts related to studying plants and their life processes.

Plant Studies

Often appears in discussions about the environment and ecosystems.

Environment Context

Remember, it refers to plant-based life, not animals or minerals.

Not Animal

Useful for describing tastes and smells in food and drinks that remind you of plants.

Food Descriptions

Commonly used in wine tasting to describe earthy qualities in specific wines.

Wine Tasting

It can imply that a fruit or vegetable was picked before it was fully ripe.

Unripe Connotation

 We've known about these powerful microbial interactions for thousands of years. You can see how through the fermentation of grains, vegetal matter and animal products, all peoples and cultures of the world have domesticated microorganisms to make the inedible edible.

Vegetal