Vegetative

Vegetative describes vegetation. Vegetative may also refer to:

  • Vegetative reproduction, a type of asexual reproduction for plants
  • Persistent vegetative state, a condition of people with severe brain damage
  • Plant community, sometimes called a vegetative community, a collection of plants in a geographic area


Famous quotes containing the word vegetative:

    Buddha has covered the walls of the great temple
    With the vegetative speed of his imagery
    Denis Devlin (1908–1959)

    Virtuous people are simply those who have ... not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
    Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)