Vĕġ'e-tā'tĭve, a.

a. [Fr. végétatif, Pr. vegetatiu, Sp., Pg., & It. vegetativo, N. Lat. vegetativus.]

1. Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants.
2. Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
3. (Zoöl.) Partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition and generation, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions, as in the vegetative enlargement of the females of some inferior animals, attended with a depression of the animal powers; vegetal. Dana.