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Webster 1913 Edition
Vegetative
Veg′e-ta-tive
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
végétatif
.] 1.
Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
2.
Having the power to produce growth in plants;
as, the
. vegetative
properties of soil3.
(Biol.)
Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal.
– Veg′e-ta-tive-ly
, adv.
Veg′e-ta-tive-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vegetative
VEG'ETATIVE
, a.1.
Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants.2.
Having the power to produce growth in plants; as the vegetative properties of soil.Definition 2024
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vegetative
See also: végétative
English
Adjective
vegetative (comparative more vegetative, superlative most vegetative)
- Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
- (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
- In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
- Physically inactive.
- (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.