Explore Vegetatively through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Vegetatively meaning
- In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
- In terms of vegetation.
Using Vegetatively
- The main meaning on this page is: In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction. | In terms of vegetation.
- In the example corpus, vegetatively often appears in combinations such as: propagated vegetatively.
Context around Vegetatively
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vegetatively
- In this selection, "vegetatively" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, propagated, divide, spreads, reproduced and propagated stand out and add context to how "vegetatively" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and grow vegetatively then become and and is vegetatively reproduced for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vegetatively" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vegetatively
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Potatoes were propagated vegetatively with little to no genetic variation. (10 words)
Lemon balm grows in clumps and spreads vegetatively, as well as by seed. (13 words)
A thornless male cultivar of the species exists and is vegetatively reproduced for ornamental use. (15 words)
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. (38 words)
Female plants, which produce the hop flowers used in brewing beer, are often propagated vegetatively and grown in the absence of male plants. (23 words)
In some plants, fungi, and protists meiosis results in the formation of spores : haploid cells that can divide vegetatively without undergoing fertilization. (22 words)
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.
Common combinations with vegetatively
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: