Vegetative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of plants or their growth.
  • adj. Biology Of, relating to, or capable of growth.
  • adj. Biology Of, relating to, or functioning in processes such as growth or nutrition rather than sexual reproduction.
  • adj. Biology Of or relating to asexual reproduction, such as fission or budding.
  • adj. Spending much time sitting or lying down; physically inactive.
  • adj. Medicine Of or relating to an impaired level of brain function in which a person responds to certain sensory stimuli but demonstrates no cognitive function.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
  • adj. Of, or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
  • adj. Physically inactive.
  • adj. Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
  • adj. Having the power to produce growth in plants.
  • adj. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Growing, or having the power of physical growth, as plants; of or pertaining to physical growth or nutrition, especially in plants.
  • In animal physiol., noting those functions or organs of the body which, being performed or acting unconsciously or involuntarily, are likened to the processes of vegetable growth, as digestion, circulation, secretion, and excretion, which are particularly concerned in the nutrition or in the growth, waste, and repair of the organism: opposed to the specially ani mal functions, as locomotion, cerebration, etc.
  • Hence, characterized by such physical processes only; lacking intellectual activity; stagnant; unprogressive.
  • Having the power to produce or support growth in plants: as, the vegetative properties of soil.
  • n. A vegetable.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. composed of vegetation or plants
  • adj. relating to involuntary bodily functions
  • adj. (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
  • adj. of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous
    • Equivalent
    involuntary    asexual    nonsexual   
    Cross Reference
    vegetative reproduction   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    vegetal    vegetable   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    creative    native    nonnative    probative   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    generative    imaginal    digestive    nutritive    reproductive   
     
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