vegetatively

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25
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12

Definition of vegetatively

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable)In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
    “The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.”
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adv

  1. (not-comparable)In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
    “The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.”
  2. (not-comparable)In terms of vegetation.
    “Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]”

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Etymology

From vegetative + -ly.

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