vegetative
Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
Other meanings
Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
Physically inactive.
Related words
- persistive vegetative state
- vegetative cell
- vegetative nervous system
- vegetatively
- vegetativeness
Word history
From Middle French "végétatif".
Where this comes from
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