Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vegetative.
- noun A vegetable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A vegetable.
- adjective rare Having the nature of a plant; vegetable.
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- adjective obsolete
vegetable - noun obsolete
vegetable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous
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Examples
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I hope if I'm trapped in a vegetive state there is someone to protect my life and not be starved to death.
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As a structure it had nothing about it that would attract special attention; it was simply neat, and had an appearance of comfort; but looked at in conjunction with the prettily arranged garden, with its tastefully laid out flower plots, and well stocked beds of vegetive edibles -- and which was protected from the intrusion of quadrupeds by a substantial "pailing fence" -- it was a snug and pleasant residence.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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Certainly the body, container of soul and of nature, cannot even in itself be as a soulless form would be: it cannot even be like air traversed by light; it must be like air storing heat: the body holding animal or vegetive life must hold also some shadow of soul; and it is body thus modified that is the seat of corporeal pains and pleasures which appear before us, the true human being, in such a way as to produce knowledge without emotion.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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