v. i.
See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.),
a. [ Cf. F. végétatif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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