A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vegetabilis,-e (adj.B), vegetalis,-e (adj.B), vegetativus,-a,-um (adj.A): vegetative, capable of growth; invigorating, animating, enlivening; able to produce and support growth, vegetative; of or relating to plants; organic material (materia,-ae (s.f.I) organica (adj.A); in contrast with animalis,-e (adj.B): pertaining to a living creature, animal [> L. cf. vegetans,-antis (part.B), arousing, enlivening, quickening, invigorating [> L. vegeto,-avi,-atum 1. to arouse, enliven, invigorate, quicken; Medaeval Latin, to grow]; see mineralis,-e (adj.B); see vegetative;

              singular                                plural
  Nom. vegetabilis (m./f.) vegetabile (n.)  vegetabiles (m./f.)  vegetabilia (n.)
  Gen.         vegetabilis                    vegetabilium
  Dat.         vegetabili                     vegetabilibus
  Acc.  vegetabilem (m./f.) vegetabile (n.) vegetabiles (m./f.) vegetabilia (n.)  
  Abl.         vegetabili                     vegetabilibus

- Regnum (s.n.II) vegetabile, abl.sg. regno vegetabili, the plant kingdom.

- Analysi chimica nulla animalitatis principia exhibent teste Clar. Pallasio: porro nec soliditas fragilitasque corallinarum validior certiorque character eft, ut a vegetabili regno excludantur, quam coriacea atque cartilaginea fucorum natura (Necker), they exhibit [i.e. show], by chemical analysis, no principles of animality [i.e. the state of being an animal], according to the [most] eminent Pallasius [i.e. Pallas]: furthermore, solidity and fragility [i.e. brittleness] is not a stronger and more certain character of the corallines, such that [i.e. so that] they may be removed from the vegetable [i.e. plant] kingdom, than the leathery and cartilaginous nature of the fuci [i.e. sea-wracks] [is].

- in quisquiliis vegetabilibus humi jacentibus hortorum , agrorum etc. coelo pluvio minime infrequens (S&A), on discarded plant litter of the soil of gardens, fields, etc., least infrequent in wet weather.

- organa fructificationis in regno vegetabili simplicissima, vesicula simplici, granula includente, constare videntur (Agardh), the organs of fructification, the most simple in the plant kingdom, seem to consist of an undivided vesicle enclosing granules.

- ad solum vegetabile habitat, it dwells on vegetabile soil (i.e. not mineral soil).

- plantae gregariae in foliis acerosis Piceae ad humum ex materia organica putrida compositum habitantes, plants gregarious growing on needle leaves of Picea on humus composed of rotten organic material.

of or belonging to a kitchen-gardener or to vegetables: olitorius,-a,-um (adj.A); oleraceus,-a,-um (adj.A): pertaining to kitchen gardens, either as a pot-herb or vegetable or as a weed; see edible;

- species generis non ut eae Rosacearum sed ut eae Brassicacearum oleraceae, the species of the genus not like those of the Rosaceae but as those of the Brassicaceae edible.

Sonchus oleraceus L. (fit to be a vegetable, fit for eating).