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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Vegetative

/vĕjˌ-ət-āt'-ĭv/ · Veg·e·ta·tive · IPA /ˈvɛd͡ʒəteɪtɪv/
01 a. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
  1. 1.
    Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
  2. 2.
    Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
  3. 3.
    Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal.(Biol.)