vegetatief

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌveː.ɣə.taːˈtif/

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• Hyphenation: ve‧ge‧ta‧tief
• Rhymes: -if

Adjective

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

Declension 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