vegetative

About 1.99 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
2. adjective Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
3. adjective Physically inactive.
4. adjective Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.

Similar words

vegetational vegetable vegetive vegetal nonsexual asexual involuntary vegetation vegetated plant

Often followed by

growth state cells cover propagation and reproduction cell life organs

Word family

vegetatively vegetativeness vegetativenesses