vegetative

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vegetative (comparative more vegetative, superlative most vegetative)

Of, or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
(biology) Of, or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
  
  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.
(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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