vegetative
vegetative
Definition
veg·eta·tive (vej′ə tāt′iv)
adjective
- of vegetation, or plants
- of or concerned with vegetation, or plant growth
- growing, or capable of growing, as plants
- designating or of those functions or parts of plants concerned with growth and nutrition as distinguished from reproduction
- capable of causing growth in plants; fertile vegetative material
- vegetational
- involuntary or passive like the growth of plants; showing little mental activity a vegetative existence
- Zool. of or pertaining to reproduction by budding or other asexual method
Etymology: ME < ML vegetativus < L vegetatus: see vegetate
Also vegetive veg′·etive (-tiv)
vegetative
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- propagation: Has there been subsequent vegetative propagation of material derived from seed?
- mycelium: Much of their life cycle is spent as vegetative mycelium, exploiting complex substrates.
- reproduction: Many water plants rely more on vegetative reproduction than on seeds for dispersal.
- state: He would have been in a vegetative state for the rest of his life.
- growth: To flower freely, vegetative growth must not be more than moderate.
- spread: In addition to low levels of seed production, vegetative spread is very slow.
Modifying Another Word
- purely: In the UK, the reproduction of Japanese knotweed is purely vegetative.
- permanently: Patients who are permanently vegetative or minimally aware are not usually admitted and patients with tracheotomies are only admitted under exceptional circumstances.
- only: In situations where seedlings cannot establish ( i.e. where vegetation management does not produce patches of bare soil ) only vegetative spread occurs.
Used with adjective complement
- remain: For instance Jennett and Teasdale [ 8 ] describe the case of a man who remained vegetative for 18 years.
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