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Vegetatively meaning
In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction. | In terms of vegetation.
Example sentences (8)
A thornless male cultivar of the species exists and is vegetatively reproduced for ornamental use.
Female plants, which produce the hop flowers used in brewing beer, are often propagated vegetatively and grown in the absence of male plants.
However commercial nurserymen extensively utilize the latter method (indeed, cultivars by nature must be vegetatively propagated by cuttings or grafting).
In some plants, fungi, and protists meiosis results in the formation of spores : haploid cells that can divide vegetatively without undergoing fertilization.
Lemon balm grows in clumps and spreads vegetatively, as well as by seed.
New varieties grown from seed can be propagated vegetatively by planting tubers, pieces of tubers cut to include at least one or two eyes, or cuttings, a practice used in greenhouses for the production of healthy seed tubers.
Potatoes were propagated vegetatively with little to no genetic variation.
Winter varieties are sown in the autumn, germinate and grow vegetatively, then become dormant during winter.