单词 | vegetating |
释义 | vegetatingn. The action of vegetate v. (in various senses). Also: the state of growing as a vegetable. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [noun] > growth or vegetation thriftc1230 upgrowing1430 thrivage1610 vegetity1628 vigidity1628 vegetating1641 vegetation1665 increase1794 multiplication1849 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > as a way of life vegetation1760 vegetating1923 the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > life of vegetable > [noun] vegetating1923 1641 R. Gentilis tr. C. García Antipathy betweene French & Spaniard sig. B6v He hath..his vegetating or growing, from the plants. 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal 74 Physiologists..assign six weeks, for the plastick Virtue to do its work in; and seven months and a half, for the perfect vegetating of the Embrio. 1717 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Le B. de Fontenelle Lives French, Ital., & German Philosophers 415 This manner of Vegetating is very convenient. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Vegetating, the state or act of growing like plants. 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story ii Frequent removal from one part of the country to another prevents anything like vegetating. 1923 Amer. Flint Aug. 18/2 Vegetating is the worst thing in the world for a human being. 2000 in L. Jewell Thirty-Nothing xvi. 169 He plumped up his cushions, stretched out his legs and settled down for a night of vegetating. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). vegetatingadj. 1. Characterized by, associated with, or causing plant growth. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > characterized by or causing growth vegetating1605 fruitful1649 germinative1707 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke sig. D4 Salt..increaseth and giueth a vegetating and growing vertue. 1685 H. Croft Some Animadversions Theory of Earth 152 I take it to be against Philosophy also, that vegetating power alone can produce Animals: and I should wonder much to see a Horse grow out of a Tree or the Earth. 1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 92 It's not unlikely, that the Rain-water may be endued with some vegetating or prolifick Vertue. 1769 Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 78 Seeds in a vegetating state. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 48 The vegetating power which is operating during the whole year in evergreens. 1844 Michigan Farmer 15 Apr. 37/2 It is important that they [sc. vines] start in their growth with the earliest vegetating power of the earth in spring. 1874 Garden 31 Jan. 95/2 Seedlings of bulbous plants may be transplanted safely even in the midst of their vegetating period. 1915 T. E. Hill Open Door to Independence 423/2 Pasteurized milk..has been heated to a temperature..which does not kill all the bacteria, but only those which are in a vegetating condition. 1993 G. P. Martelli Graft-transmissible Dis. Grapevines i. 79/2 The symptoms of yellow fleck appear in the height of summer.., and they persist for the rest of the vegetating season. 2. Exhibiting growth; (also) capable of living and growing. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] quickOE vegetablec1425 adolent?1440 vegetative1509 vegetate1574 vegetarya1595 vegetating1605 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke sig. B3v Man is made partaker of the celestial nature of vnderstanding, of the feeling and vegetating soule. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants 25 A Vegetating Plant, as its Parts or Bladders are still generated, they are at the same time also fill'd with Sap. 1765 tr. Voltaire Philos. Dict. 301 Thou poor pedant seest a vegetating plant, and thou sayest..Vegetative soul. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 152 Mr. Gough informs me that vegetating germs of the viviparous variety,..planted in his garden in the year 1790, still continue viviparous. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 128 Sheep may occasionally be allowed to take a walk over the fallow, to pick up any vegetating weeds or grass roots that may come in their way. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 630 The Lemnaceæ consist of small branched leafless floating vegetating bodies. 1915 Rotarian Mar. 51/2 A child is born into the world, and for some weeks or months it is..a mere vegetating organism, its mind a tabula rasa. 1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind x. 254 Priestley grasped that vegetating plants renewed vitiated air. 3. Medicine. Of a lesion of the skin or other part of the body: forming a vegetation (vegetation n. 8); exhibiting exuberant, often papillary or fungoid, growth. Also: characterized by such lesions. ΚΠ 1841 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 56 454 The mitral and tricuspid valves were occupied by vegetating granulations and excrescences. 1868 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women 443 (heading) Vegetating epithelioma, or cauliflower excrescence of the uterus. 1880 S. W. Gross Pract. Treat. Tumors Mammary Gland iv. 36 They [sc. connective tissue neoplasms] may be solid, cystic, or vegetating. 1917 M. B. Hartzell Dis. Skin viii. 275 This is the ‘vegetating’ or ‘frambœsioid’ syphiloderm of authors. 1955 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 55 677/1 The development of predominant vegetating lesions suggests pemphigus vegetans. 2006 D. J. Trozak et al. Dermatol. Skills Primary Care 296 Some deep fungal diseases produce vegetating lesions that could be confused with a giant highly keratotic KA [= keratoacanthoma]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1641adj.1605 |
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