Definition of "vegetal"

Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i

The Computer Center is muffled and dim, warm with whiffs of sourness, of body odor, and of the vegetal smells of dirt embedded in clothes that were advancing in the direction of compost.

2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241

This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps