vegetative
adjEtymology
From Middle French végétatif, from Medieval Latin vegetativus, from past participle stem of vegetare.
- derived from végétatif
Definitions
Of or relating to plants
Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather…
Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
- In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
Physically inactive.
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Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is…
Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
The neighborhood
- neighborcomatose
- neighborbrain dead
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for vegetative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA