(obsolete) vegetable / Of or pertaining to vegetation.

(obsolete) vigorous; lively; active; vegete.

(biology) The quality or state of being vegetal.

simple past tense and past participle of vegetate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vegetate

On which vegetation is growing.

present participle of vegetate

Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth. / (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction. / Physically inactive.

(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively. / (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth / The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

(of a plant) To grow or sprout. / (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally. / (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.