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Vegetative

adjective

Of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous. Synonym: vegetive.

Composed of vegetation or plants. Synonyms: vegetal, vegetational. "Vegetational cover" , "The decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor"

Relating to involuntary bodily functions.

(of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes. Synonym: vegetal.

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... whereas October is the fruiting month at 12,000, and November below 10,000 feet. Dr. Thomson does not consider that the more sunny climate of the loftier elevations sufficiently accounts for this, and adds the stimulus of cold, which must act by checking the vegetative organs and hastening maturation.] ...

— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... capable of division; or are only metaphysically speaking two, being by nature inseparable, as are convex and concave circumferences, matters not in respect of our present purpose). And of the Irrational, the one part seems common to other objects, and in fact vegetative; I mean the cause of nourishment and growth (for such a faculty of the Soul one would assume to exist in all things that receive nourishment, even in embryos, and this the same as in the perfect creatures; for this is more likely than that it ...

— Ethics • Aristotle

... least the nursery must have it. In the central States of the Union plants and trees exposed to the southern sun put forth their leaves two weeks sooner than those exposed to the north. The infant cannot fail to profit by the same condition, for the young child may be said to lead in part a vegetative as well as an animal life, and to need air and sunshine and warmth as much as plants do. The very best room in the house is not too good for the nursery, for in no other room is such important and delicate work ...

— Study of Child Life • Marion Foster Washburne

... onions hanging from the eaves, the iron saucepans drying in the sun, the wooden bench overhung with honeysuckle, the stone-crop clinging to the thatch, as it does on the roofs of nearly all the cottages in France, revealing a humble life that is almost vegetative? ...

— The Village Rector • Honore de Balzac

... vegetative type of reproduction, in which one or more ordinary cells separate from the parent plant and become ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various

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