vegetous

Latin vegetus. See vegete.

vegetous (comparative more vegetous, superlative most vegetous)

1. (obsolete) vigorous; lively; active; energetic.

   Synonym: vegete

   • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman:

     If she be fair, young, and vegetous, no sweetmeats ever drew more flies.

• “vegetous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• veges out