Vegetative
Vegetative , adjective
[Compare French végétatif.]
1.
Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
2.
Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
3.
(Biology) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal.