Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'vegetative':
Of, relating to, or functioning in processes such as growth or nutrition rather than sexual reproduction.
Spending much time sitting or lying down; physically inactive.
Of or relating to asexual reproduction, such as fission or budding.
Of, relating to, or capable of growth.
Relating to an impaired level of brain function in which a person responds reflexively to certain sensory stimuli but demonstrates no cognitive function.
Relating to vegetative reproduction.
Relating to or characteristic of plants or their growth.
Of or relating to an impaired level of brain function in which a person responds to certain sensory stimuli but demonstrates no cognitive function.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of plants or their growth.
Relating to feeding and growth rather than reproduction, as in the mobile phase of plasmodial slime molds.
Synonyms of word 'vegetative' :
vegetational
vegetal
vegetal
vegetive
Usage of the word 'vegetative' in Sentences :
vegetative propagation of material derived from seed?
In the UK, the reproduction of Japanese knotweed is purely vegetative.
For instance Jennett and Teasdale [ 8 ] describe the case of a man who remained vegetative for 18 years.
Patients who are permanently vegetative or minimally aware are not usually admitted and patients with tracheotomies are only admitted under exceptional circumstances.
vegetative reproduction than on seeds for dispersal.
In situations where seedlings cannot establish ( i.e. where vegetation management does not produce patches of bare soil ) only vegetative spread occurs.
vegetative state for the rest of his life.
vegetative growth must not be more than moderate.
vegetative spread is very slow.
Usage of the word 'vegetative' in popular media :
Washington Post —
“while some crops, like the sugar beet, have been benefiting, cereal crops such as rye suffer because "they need to devote more energy to
vegetative growth than to the seed that we eat."....
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“i can't tell you whether she will be in a
vegetative state....
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“one young boy remains in a
vegetative state.....
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Wall Street Journal —
“"i'm probably going to turn into a
vegetative state and watch lots of cartoons and drink chocolate milk and egg nog," napier said when last weekend's world cup bobsled races on his home track at mount van hoevenberg were finished.....
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“i have an advanced directive because i prefer to go home to my lord as naturally as nature and god intended; not spend years in a
vegetative state kept alive by machines while most likely bankrupting my family in the process.....
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“the 13-month-old child, who is in a
vegetative state, has been at the london health sciences centre in ontario since last fall.....
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“wondering whether euthanasia could be a ruse for grabbing properties, the supreme court on wednesday reserved its verdict on a mercy killing plea of a mumbai nurse living a
vegetative existence for the last 37 years after being sexually assaulted by a hospital sweeper....
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