| vegetate | (v) lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind |
| vegetate | (v) establish vegetation on, Example: They vegetated the hills behind their house |
| vegetate | (v) produce vegetation, Example: The fields vegetate vigorously |
| vegetate | (v) grow like a plant, Example: This fungus usually vegetates vigorously |
| vegetate | (v) grow or spread abnormally, Example: warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed |
| vegetate | (v) propagate asexually, Example: The bacterial growth vegetated along |
| vegetation | (n) all the plant life in a particular region or period, Syn. flora, botany, Ant. fauna, Example: Pleistocene vegetation; the flora of southern California; the botany of China |
| vegetation | (n) the process of growth in plants |
| vegetation | (n) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) |
| vegetation | (n) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life, Example: their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation |
| Vegetate | v. i. See dying vegetables life sustain, Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Vegetation | n. [ Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Vegetative | a. [ Cf. F. végétatif. ] [ 1913 Webster ] -- |
| Vegetation { f } | vegetation [Add to Longdo] |
| vegetativ { adv } | vegetatively [Add to Longdo] |
| vegetativ | vegetal [Add to Longdo] |
| vegetativ { adj }; das autonome Nervensystem betreffend [ med. ] | vegetative [Add to Longdo] |