Found 2 items, similar to Vegetative.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: vegetative
vegetative
adj 1: of or relating to an activity that is passive and
monotonous;
“a dull vegetative lifestyle” [syn:
vegetive]
2: used of involuntary bodily functions;
“vegetative functions
such as digestion or growth or circulation”
3: (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes [syn:
vegetal]
4: composed of vegetation or plants;
“regions rich in vegetal
products”;
“vegetational cover”;
“the decaying vegetative
layer covering a forest floor” [syn:
vegetal,
vegetational]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Vegetative
Vegetative
\Veg"e*ta*tive\, a. [Cf. F. v['e]g['e]tatif.]
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1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants;
capable of vegetating.
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2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the
vegetative properties of soil.
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3. (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.
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Veg"e*ta*tive*ly, adv. --
Veg"e*ta*tive*ness, n.
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