1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of
vegetating.
2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative
properties of soil.
3. (Biol.) 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.
— Veg"e*ta*tive*ly, adv. — Veg"e*ta*tive*ness, n.
Ve*gete" (?), a. [L. vegetus. See Vegetable.] Lively; active;
sprightly; vigorous. [Obs.]
Even her body was made airy and vegete.
Jer. Taylor.
Veg"e*tive (?), a. [See Vegetate, and Vegetative.] Having the nature of
a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life. [R.] Tusser.