Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Vegetative \Veg"e*ta*tive\, a. [Cf. F. v['e]g['e]tatif.]
   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. (Biol.) 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. -- {Veg"e*ta*tive*ly}, adv. --
      {Veg"e*ta*tive*ness}, n.