Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vegetate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vegetate \Veg"e*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vegetated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Vegetating}.] [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.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty
outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vegetate
v 1: lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
2: establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind
their house"
3: produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously"
4: grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates
vigorously"
5: propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"
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