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Definitions: Vegetative |
VegetativeAdjective1. Of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle". 2. (physiology) used of involuntary bodily functions; "vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation". 3. (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes. 4. Composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vegetative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | Applied to the non-sexual tissues, growth and reproduction of plants, e. g. to stems in contrast to stamens, to rooting versus seed development, and to propagation not involving the union of gametes(as in budding, cuttings, layers and grafts)in contrast to(sexual)reproduction by seed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | 1. concerned with growth and with nutrition. 2. functioning involuntarily or unconsciously, as the vegetative nervous system. 3. resting; denoting the portion of a cell cycle during which the cell is not involved in replication. 4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of plants. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: VegetativeSynonyms: vegetal (adj), vegetational (adj), vegetive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence or want of Intellect | Adjective: unendowed with reason, void of reason; thoughtless; vegetative; moronic, idiotic, brainless. |
Insensibility | Unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck; unblushing; (shameless); unanimated; vegetative. |
Torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness; (physical insensibility). | |
Quiescence | Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vegetative |
| English words defined with "vegetative": arthrospore ♦ division Gymnomycota, division Myxomycota ♦ Gymnomycota ♦ mycelium, Myxomycota ♦ Sclerotium ♦ vegetal, vegetational, vegetive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vegetative": accelerated erosion, apomixia ♦ Badnavirus, binary fission ♦ campylidia, carbon density, Chlamydiales, Cloning, Organism, COLOCASIA ANTIQUORUM, Concentrated animal feeding operation, Conservation Reserve Program, coppice forest ♦ Desertification ♦ GVI ♦ irrigation water use ♦ neurovegetative ♦ Patch dynamics, Permanent vegetative cover, phenology ♦ secondary species, Soil and Water Conservation Practices, Soil carbon, Spores, Bacterial, sprout forest ♦ Vegetative controls, vegetative propagation ♦ Wind erosion equation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vegetative" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (vegetatively). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | NRCS employee, Colleen Schneider, with landowner observing ponds and vegetative growth on Hurd creek near Port Angeles, WA.Credit: Gary Wilson. |
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Health | Patients in a vegetative state may appear somewhat normal. (references) | |
Others may remain in a vegetative state for years or even decades. (references) | ||
Some patients may regain a degree of awareness after vegetative state. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vegetative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Vegetative" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.74% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vegetative": Persistent Vegetative State ♦ vegetative propagation ♦ vegetative soil. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vegetative state | 15 |
vegetative propagation | 10 |
vegetative | 9 |
vegetative reproduction | 4 |
artificial propagation vegetative | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vegetative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vegjetativ, bimor (vegetable, vegetal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نام (doss, fall asleep, go to sleep, hibernate, sleep, slumber), نباتي (botanical, phytophagous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | растителен (green, organic, vegetable, vegetal), вегетационен, вегетативен, вегетиращ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 植物"长 (Vegetatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rostlinný (vegetal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vegetativ (asexual, somatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vegetatief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vegetatiivinen (asexual, somatic), somaattinen (asexual, somatic), kasvullinen (asexual, somatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | végétatif (vegetatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vegetativ (asexual, autonomic, somatic, vegetal, vegetatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βλαστικόσ (vegetational), φυτόζωων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tenyészõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vegetativo (asexual, somatic, vegetal, vegetatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 養"殖 (vegetative reproduction), 養器官 (vegetative organ). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | えいようきか" (vegetative organ), えいようせいしょく (vegetative reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무성한. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | losseragh (leguminous), glasseragh (vegetable garden), aasoil (growing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egetativevay vegetativo (asexual, autonomous, somatic, vegetal). (various references) vegetativ. (various references) вегетативный, прозябающий. (various references) vegetativan. (various references) vegetativo (asexual, somatic). (various references) vegetativ (somatic, vegetal), växande (Crescent, cumulative, growing). (various references) istem dışı çalışan, bitkisel hayatta olan, bitkisel (galenic, herbal, vegetable, vegetal), bitki gibi (plantlike). (various references) рослинний (floral, vegetable, vegetal), вегетативний (asexual), вегетиційний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "vegetative": vegetatively, vegetativeness, vegetativenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Vegetative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: veegetative, vegatative, vegitative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vegetative" (pronounced ve'jutā"tiv) |
| 4 | -ā" t i v | creative, native, nonnative, probative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vindictive, vituperative. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-t-t-v-v" | |
-2 letters: vegetate, vegetive. | |
-4 letters: vegete, vittae. | |
-5 letters: evite, vegie, vitae, vitta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-t-t-v-v" | |
+2 letters: vegetatively. | |
+4 letters: vegetativeness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 67 65 74 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . --. . - .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01100111 01100101 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e g e t a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0067 0065 0074 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56717371866786758871 |
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