vegetative

comparative more vegetative · superlative most vegetative

1. Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
2. biologyOf or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.

   In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

   1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5

3. Physically inactive.
4. medicineOf a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.