vegetalize

English

Alternative forms

• vegetalise

Etymology

vegetal +‎ -ize

Verb

vegetalize (third-person singular simple present vegetalizes, present participle vegetalizing, simple past and past participle vegetalized)

1. To make more vegetal; to make or treat as more like a plant.
   • 1993, John Belleme, Jan Belleme, Cooking with Japanese Foods, page 54:

     This ancient method, which uses natural fermentation to increase bonito's nutritional values and “vegetalize" its composition, is still used today.

   • 2013, M. Abercrombie, Jean Brachet, Thomas J. King, Advances in Morphogenesis: Volume 10, page 60:

     Assuming that RNP is present in the mesoderm of the early dorsal lip, it is suggested that this tends to vegetalize the more animal cells that lack RNP, and is itself animalized by these cells, i.e., RNPs will be passed to the cells above, and RNP breakage for translation will be increased in the invaginated cells.

   • 2019, Natania Meeker, Antónia Szabari, Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction, page 178:

     Rather, it is an opportunity to vegetalize your already more than human body.