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vegetive

vegetive adjective: vegetable.

Adjective

vegetive (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) vegetable
  2. Of or pertaining to vegetation.
    Synonyms:
    vegetative

Noun

vegetive (plural vegetives)

  1. (obsolete) vegetable
    • I have
      (Together with my practice) made familiar
      To me and to my aid, the blest infusions
      That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stonesc. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...
    • Hence vegetives receive their fragrant birth, / And clothe the naked bosom of the earth.1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC

Synonyms of vegetive

Forms of vegetive

pluralvegetives

Questions about vegetive

What does vegetive mean?
Vegetive means vegetable.
What part of speech is vegetive?
Vegetive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near vegetive in the dictionary

  1. vegeteness
  2. vegetism
  3. vegetist
  4. vegetists
  5. Vegetius
  6. vegetive
  7. vegetives
  8. vegetivorous
  9. vegetize
  10. vegetized
  11. vegetizes

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