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vegetative

/ˈvɛd͡ʒəteɪtɪv/

vegetative adjective: of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.

Adjective

vegetative (comparative more vegetative, superlative most vegetative)

  1. Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
  2. 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. Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.

vegetative meaning in Tamil and Urdu

vegetative in Tamil

உடல் அல்லது தழை வழி, பதியத்துக்குரிய, பதியமுறையான, பதிமுறையான

vegetative in Urdu

بےجان, ڈھیلا, مریل

Examples of vegetative in a sentence

  • Small diatoms can become larger through one of two processes: auxosporulation or vegetative cell enlargement.
  • Like the spores of other bacteria, when compared to vegetative cells, akinetes are more resistant to environmental stresses.
  • The androsporangia are formed in a series by the repeated transverse division of any vegetative cell of a large filament.

All 13 example sentences with vegetative

Forms of vegetative

comparativemore vegetative
superlativemost vegetative

Origin of vegetative

From Middle French végétatif, from Medieval Latin vegetativus, from past participle stem of vegetare.

Words formed from vegetative

Phrases with vegetative

Questions about vegetative

What does vegetative mean?
Vegetative means of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
What is vegetative in Tamil?
Vegetative in Tamil is உடல் அல்லது தழை வழி, பதியத்துக்குரிய, பதியமுறையான. See Vegetative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vegetative?
Vegetative is an adjective.
How do you pronounce vegetative?
Vegetative is pronounced /ˈvɛd͡ʒəteɪtɪv/.

Words near vegetative in the dictionary

  1. vegetational
  2. vegetationless
  3. vegetations
  4. vegetations of salts
  5. vegetatious
  6. vegetative
  7. vegetative cell
  8. vegetative cells
  9. vegetative nervous system
  10. vegetative nervous systems
  11. vegetatively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vegetative (page history and authors); vegetative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vegetative (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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