Vegetatively

Origin

vegetative + -ly

Full definition of vegetatively

Adverb

1. In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
• Schuster Hepaticae V|4The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.