Defn: Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.
VEGETARIANISM
Veg`e*ta"ri*an*ism, n.
Defn: The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.
VEGETATE
Veg"e*tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Vegetating.] Etym: [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See
Vegetable.]
1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope.
2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey.
3. (Med.)
Defn: To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
VEGETATION Veg`e*ta"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.]
1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.