Definitions

vegetative

[vej-i-tey-tiv] / ˈvɛdʒ ɪˌteɪ tɪv /

ADJECTIVE

fertile

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich

WEAK

bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey generative gravid hebetic loamy luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank spawning teeming uberous virile with child yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive

WEAK

fruitless infertile sterile useless

ADJECTIVE

herbal

Synonyms

WEAK

grassy vegetal verdant

ADJECTIVE

proliferous

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey fruitful generative gravid hebetic loamy lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous virile with child yielding

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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

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 Country in which Man is not a Stranger I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I question a window concerning sight.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

He indeed in general describes the Soul, Animal, Vegetative, and Sensitive.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

vegetative

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