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The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.

to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. Germination apparatus, an apparatus for malting grain.

Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.

A vegetable microörganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.

Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.

A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.

A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits.

y the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the grow…

A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.

A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.

That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease. Mortimer.

A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

h of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology.

Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition (, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.