vegetative

See also: végétative

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French végétatif, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin vegetativus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛdʒəteɪtɪv/

Adjective

vegetative (comparative more vegetative, superlative most vegetative)

1. Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
2. (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, 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.

3. Physically inactive.
4. (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.

Related terms

• persistent vegetative state
• vegetatively
• vegetativeness

See also

• comatose
• brain dead

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German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

vegetative

1. inflection of vegetativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Italian

Adjective

vegetative

1. feminine plural of vegetativo