VEGETATIVE
\vˈɛd͡ʒɪtˌe͡ɪtɪv], \vˈɛdʒɪtˌeɪtɪv], \v_ˈɛ_dʒ_ɪ_t_ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of VEGETATIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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(of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
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of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle"
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used of involuntary bodily functions; "vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation"
By Princeton University
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(of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
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of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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1. Growing or functioning involuntarily or unconsciously after the assumed manner of vegetable life. 2. Resting, not active, noting the stage of a cell or its nucleus in which the process of caryocinesia is quiescent.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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To stage of pure growth in plants as opp. reproductive; foliage shoots as opp. flower or reproductive shoots.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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