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Vegetative vs Vegetated - What's the difference?

vegetative | vegetated |

As adjectives the difference between vegetative and vegetated

is that vegetative is while vegetated is on which vegetation is growing.

As a verb vegetated is

(vegetate).

vegetative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
  • (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
  • *
    • In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
  • Physically inactive.
  • (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.

    • Related terms

    * persistent vegetative state * vegetatively * vegetativeness

    See also

    * comatose * brain dead ----

    vegetated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (vegetate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • On which vegetation is growing.
    • a vegetated streambank