of or pertaining to the star Vega, or the natives or inhabitants of its solar system
The great Vegan Science Chief uttered an order and in a moment one of our crew had brought from another of the cruiser’s rooms the thought-speech machine, a compact metal cabinet from which five flat metal bands led, ending in shining little clips.
A Novel of a Vegan Visitor
But Earth has particular significance. It’s the center of Loarism, because the Humans originated here. It corresponds to our own Vegan system.
The Vegan relaxed for a moment as its eyes readjusted themselves; then its antennae snapped erect and began to sway slowly in the simple patterns of the sign language of its race… Most of the Earthmen had some knowledge of Vegan speech—the two systems are near neighbors, and enjoy lively commercial relations—and all looked to Albee for a decision.
Dorlis was great when no human had ever entered the Vegan system.
He had long since stopped wishing for the mild Vegan tobacco of his youth.
There were just the standard plants that are nutured in ships’s farms throughout the galaxy—tomatoes and cucumbers, the Centaurian umbrella vine, Vegan moss-fern.
There’s softshell malaprops marinated in angels’s tears, roast Vegan dingword, klitterbungas fried in oyster sauce, [etc.].
Kirk was exposed to and almost died from Vegan choriomengitis.
A bed of pink carnivorous plants, resembling a Vegan weeping flytrap, snapped at unwary insects. According to the tricorder, the concealed panel was right above the voracious flytraps. Naturally, Barclay thought. Why not a nest of Denebian slime devils, too?
antedating 1930
Edmond Hamilton, "Sun People", in Weird Tales.
Earliest cite in OED2: 1951. OED Online revised this entry in 2012 to include this 1940 example.
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