(now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). / Pertaining to vegetables or plants.

(obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.

(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.

(obsolete) lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.

Of or pertaining to vegetation.

Characteristic of vegetation / (pathology) growing, or causing growth

simple past tense and past participle of vegetize

(US) To which ingredients found in vegetables have been added, especially minerals and vitamins.

(intransitive, chiefly figuratively) To be in a vegetative state. / (transitive, chiefly figuratively) To put into a vegetative state.