végétable

from Latin vegetabilis (vivifying). Rabelais uses it in the etymological sense that would give the English word vegetable: thus he created man naked, tender, fragile, without offensive or defensive weapons, in a state of innocence and the first golden age, as an animal, not a plant: as an animal (I say) born for peace, not for war: an animal born for the wondrous enjoyment of all fruits and vegetable plants, an animal born for peaceful dominion over all beasts.