irregular combining form of the L. stem veget-, used in the sense of ‘vegetable and …’ or ‘having a vegetable origin.’ a. With adjs., as vegeto-alkaline, -animal, -bituminous, -carbonaceous, -mineral, -sulphuric, etc.
Cf. F. végéto-animal, -minéral, -sulfurique.
1833. Penny Cycl., I. 80/1. The *vegeto-alkaline acetates … are decomposed.
1799. Anderson, Recreations, I. 267. Hairs, spines, feathers, &c., are all *vegeto-animal productions.
1842. Loudon, Suburban Hort., 65. Composts of vegetable or vegeto-animal matter and earth are of various kinds.
1876. trans. Schützenberger’s Ferment., 34. The matter which decomposes sugar is a vegeto-animal substance.
1796. Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), II. 40. By Inflammable substances I understand all those of Mineral Origin whose principal character is Inflammability…. Of these the simplest kinds may be reduced to six Genera, namely the Aeriform, the Bituminous, Carbonaceous, *Vegeto-Carbonaceous, *Vegeto-Bituminous, and the Sulphureous.
1776. Percival, Ess., III. 247. Each ounce, therefore, of the *vegeto-mineral water contains only four tenths of a grain of this metal.
1785. Med. Comm., II. 31. A poultice with Goulard’s vegeto mineral extract had been … prescribed.
1857. Bullock, trans. Cazeaux’s Midwifery, 25. Some of the vegeto-mineral lotions are usually sufficient to cause their [i.e., caruncles] disappearance.
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 654. Some *vegeto-sulphuric acid is formed at the same time.
b. With sbs., as vegeto-alkali, -alkaloid, -mineral, -principle, -veratrine, etc.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 205. Dr. Sertürner has obtained some other *vegeto-alkalies from Cinchona.
1844. Fownes, Chem., 478. The vegeto-alkalis, or alkaloids, constitute a remarkable, and at present isolated, group of bodies.
c. 1865. J. Wylde, in Circ. Sci., I. 416/1. An account of the vegeto-alkalies.
1887. A. M. Brown, Anim. Alkaloids, 60. The means of distinguishing the *vegeto-alkaloid.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 40. The most interesting fact relative to this *vegeto-mineral is its geological position.
1830. Amer. Jrnl. Sci., XVII. 385. M. Dulong has obtained a particular *vegeto-principle from the roots of Plumbago Europæa.
1887. A. M. Brown, Anim. Alkaloids, 59. The *vegeto-veratrine does not reduce the ferricyanide.
