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vegetatively |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Vegetative \Veg"e*ta*tive\, a. [Cf. F. v['e]g['e]tatif.] 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.) 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.
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