Definition of Vegetative

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Vegetative

Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.

Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.

Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal.

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Vegetative Quotations

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
Wilhelm Wundt

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Bobby Scott

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.
Michael Schiavo

Vegetative Translations

vegetative in German is vegetativ

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