Vegetative

Full definition of vegetative

Adjective

1. Of, or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
2. (biology) Of, or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
• Schuster Hepaticae V|5In 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.
3. Physically inactive.
4. (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.

Related terms

• persistent vegetative state
• vegetatively
• vegetativeness