vegetous

English

Etymology

Latin vegetus. See vegete.

Adjective

vegetous (comparative more vegetous, superlative most vegetous)

  1. (obsolete) vigorous; lively; active; vegete.
    • Ben Jonson
      If she be young, and vegetous, no sweetmeats ever drew more flies.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vegetous in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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