late 14c., "endowed with the power of growth," from Old French vegetatif "(naturally) growing," from Medieval Latin vegetativus, from vegetat-, past participle stem of vegetare (see vegetable (adj.)). Middle English transferred sense was "characterized by growth." Modern pathological sense of "brain-dead, lacking intellectual activity, mentally inert" is from 1893, via notion of having only such functions which perform involuntarily or unconsciously and thus are likened to the processes of vegetable growth.
雙語例句
1. The harshness of the climate makes vegetative growth extremely slow.
惡劣的氣候使植物生長(zhǎng)特別緩慢。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She was in what was described as a vegetative state.
她處于一種被稱為植物人的狀態(tài)。
來自柯林斯例句
3. She had been in what doctors described as an irreversible vegetative state for five years.
她處于醫(yī)生所說的不可逆性植物人狀態(tài)已經(jīng)5年了。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The terminal bud continues vegetative activity during most of the growing season.
在大部分生長(zhǎng)季節(jié),這種莖的頂芽繼續(xù)著植物的生長(zhǎng).
來自辭典例句
5. A " vegetative propagule " is any type of vegetatively propagated tree.