Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Probably borrowed from French végétatif, from Middle French [Term?], from Latin vegetātīvus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˌveː.ɣə.taːˈtif/
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  • Hyphenation: ve‧ge‧ta‧tief
  • Rhymes: -if

Adjective edit

vegetatief (not comparable)

  1. vegetative, pertaining to vegetation
    Synonym: plantaardig
  2. (philosophy, chiefly Aristotelianism) vegetative, pertaining to the vegetative soul, of itself capable of some motion but not of locomotion
  3. vegetative, pertaining to plant growth and metabolism
  4. (biology) pertaining to asexual reproduction
  5. conducive to growth and vegetation
  6. (medicine) vegetative, pertaining to a state of impaired brain function

Inflection edit

Inflection of vegetatief
uninflected vegetatief
inflected vegetatieve
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial vegetatief
indefinite m./f. sing. vegetatieve
n. sing. vegetatief
plural vegetatieve
definite vegetatieve
partitive vegetatiefs