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vegetatively en · ADV

Etymology

From vegetative + -ly.

Meanings

  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. 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
  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; […] 1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision, page 80: