"Vegetal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Brazilian plant called Mercurio vegetal; also known as Manaca. The roots, and to some extent the leaves, are used in medicine; the inner bark and all the herbaceous parts are nauseously bitter; it is regarded as a purgative, emetic, and alexipharmic; in overdoses ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... striking qualities of the original are lost in the reproduction through the use of designs in the place of realistic coloring, but the effect is retained sufficiently to indicate the nature of the sequence and the directness with which it leads back to an origin in vegetal accumulations. The evolutionary process is seen to take the form of increasing density through the progressive expulsion of volatilizable matters in the course of geologic time. This inference is substantiated beyond reasonable ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith
... value as a means of mental discipline. Chemistry has also interacted with the different branches of physics, giving us the voltaic battery, the telegraph, and the wonderful results of spectrum-analysis. On the other hand, it has analyzed the proximate constituents of animal and vegetal structures, and has even gone far toward determining some of the conditions of organic existence; while every one of the arts, whether aesthetic, therapeutic, or industrial, has received from it many ...
— Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... a tous les amateurs de cafe; contenant l'histoire, la description, la culture, les proprietes de ce vegetal. Paris, 1790. 2 pts. in ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers |
