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Vegetative definition

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The definition of vegetative is something that relates to plants or shows little brain function.

An example of vegetative is growing vegetables from seed, vegetative starter.

An example of vegetative is a person with major brain damage showing no mental activity or emotion, a vegetative existence.

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Of, relating to, or characteristic of plants or their growth.
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Spending much time sitting or lying down; physically inactive.
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(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.
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Of, relating to, or capable of growth.
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Of, relating to, or functioning in processes such as growth or nutrition rather than reproduction.
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Of or relating to asexual reproduction, such as fission or budding.
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Growing, or capable of growing, as plants.
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Designating or of those functions or parts of plants concerned with growth and nutrition as distinguished from reproduction.
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Capable of causing growth in plants; fertile.

Vegetative material.

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(zool.) Of or pertaining to reproduction by budding or other asexual method.
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Of vegetation, or plants.
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Of or concerned with vegetation, or plant growth.
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Characterized by a passive existence.
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Characterized by extremely limited responsiveness and brain activity.

A patient in a vegetative state.

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Relating to or characteristic of plants or their growth.
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Spending much time sitting or lying down; physically inactive.
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(medicine) Relating to an impaired level of brain function in which a person responds to certain sensory stimuli but demonstrates no cognitive function.
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Relating to or capable of growth.
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Relating to or functioning in processes such as growth or nutrition rather than reproduction.
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Relating to asexual reproduction, such as fission or budding.
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Relating to or characteristic of plants or their growth.
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Relating to vegetative reproduction.
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Relating to feeding and growth rather than reproduction, as in the mobile phase of plasmodial slime molds.
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Relating to an impaired level of brain function in which a person responds reflexively to certain sensory stimuli but demonstrates no cognitive function.
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Of, or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
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(biology) Of, or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
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(medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
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Vegetative Sentence Examples

  • The plants show great diversity in vegetative structure.

  • In this way we may distinguish, first, vegetative reproduction, the result of discontinuous growth of the tissues and cell-layers of the body as a whole, leading to (I) fission, (2) autotomy, or (3) vegetative budding; secondly, germinal reproduction, the result of the reproductive activity of the archaeocytes or germinal tissue.

  • A characteristic feature of the fungal vegetative plantbody (mycelium) is its formation from independent coenocytic tubes or cell-threads.

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