vegetative
adj/ˈvɛd͡ʒəteɪtɪv/
Etymology From Middle French végétatif, from Medieval Latin vegetativus, from past participle stem of vegetare.
1
Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
2
Biology, Natural sciences 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.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
3
Physically inactive.
4
Medicine, Sciences Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
- Derived terms
- persistive vegetative state, vegetative cell, vegetatively, vegetative nervous system, vegetativeness
- Related terms
- comatose, brain dead