Category:Vegetative

Veg"e*ta*tive, a. Etym: [cf. F. végétatif.]

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

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

3. (biol.)

Defn: 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. -- veg"e*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- veg"e*ta*tive*ness, n.