vegetive

Adjective
Synonyms: vegetative

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Adjective (1)

  1. of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous“a dull vegetative lifestyle”Synonyms: vegetativeRelating to vegetation
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Veg′e·tive adjective

Origin: See Vegetate, and Vegetative.

Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life. rare Thomas Tusser


Veg′e·tive noun

A vegetable. obsolete

The blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones.— William Shakespeare

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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