vegetative

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Vegetative states were considered permanent after three months if the injury was caused by oxygen deprivation, or one year if it was caused by blunt trauma.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2011

I Question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning a Sight.

From Time Magazine Archive

These principles, when condensed and limited so as to be seen by us, may take the form of Reason, Emotion, Energy and Sensation, or, to give them Boehme's names, Contraction, Expansion, Rotation, and Vegetative life.

From Mysticism in English Literature by Spurgeon, Caroline F. E.

Vegetative body unicellular; spheroidal, cylindrical or spirally twisted; isolated or connected in filamentous or other growth series.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

The Mind Principle on the Vegetative Plane, however, knows exactly how to go to work to select and draw to itself just the elements needed to build up the single cell.

From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by Atkinson, William Walker