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vegetatively

vegetatively adverb: in a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.

Adverb

vegetatively (not comparable)

  1. In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
    • The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but...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 4
  2. In terms of vegetation.
    • Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision, page 80

Origin of vegetatively

From vegetative + -ly.

Questions about vegetatively

What does vegetatively mean?
Vegetatively means in a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
What part of speech is vegetatively?
Vegetatively is an adverb.

Words near vegetatively in the dictionary

  1. vegetative
  2. vegetative cell
  3. vegetative cells
  4. vegetative nervous system
  5. vegetative nervous systems
  6. vegetatively
  7. vegetativeness
  8. vegete
  9. vegeteness
  10. vegetism
  11. vegetist

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