vegetalize

present singular third person vegetalizes · participle present vegetalizing · participle past vegetalized · past vegetalized · alternative vegetalise

1. To make more vegetal; to make or treat as more like a plant.

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

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

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

   1993, John Belleme, Jan Belleme, Cooking with Japanese Foods, page 54

   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.

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