See Also: deflorate(medicine)

vegetant (iou) and deflorate (medicine)


vegetant (iou)



vegetant adjective. Now rare. E16.
[Latin vegetant- pres. ppl stem of vegetare: see VEGETATE, -ANT1.]
= VEGETABLE adjective 1, 2. E16.
Animating, vivifying. rare. E16-E17.

deflorate (medicine)


deflorate
<botany> Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.

Origin: LL. Defloratus, p. P. Of deflorare. See Deflour.

Source: Websters Dictionary