vegetative

From Middle French végétatif, from Medieval Latin vegetativus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛdʒəteɪtɪv/

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.

• persistent vegetative state
• vegetatively
• vegetativeness

• comatose
• brain dead

vegetative

1. inflected form of vegetativ

vegetative

1. feminine plural of vegetativo