† vegetous, a. Obs.
[f. L. veget-us vegete: see -ous.]
= vegete a.
| 1609 B. Jonson Sil. Wom. ii. ii, If shee be faire, yong, and vegetous. a 1670 Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 422 A vegetous faith is able to say unto a mountain, Be removed into the sea. 1696 Whiston The. Earth iv. (1722) 351 The Seeds of those Vegetables which God originally Created were fresh and vegetous. |