Vegetative

['vedʒɪtətɪv;-teɪtɪv] or ['vɛdʒə'tetɪv]

Definition

(adj.) relating to involuntary bodily functions; 'vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation' .

(adj.) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; 'a dull vegetative lifestyle' .

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Definition

(a.) Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.

(a.) Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.

(a.) 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.

Edited by Janet