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vegetative
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
Also vegetive
Related Forms:
- vegetatively adverb
- vegetativeness noun
See vegetative in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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