植物怎麼長、怎麼繁殖
這是畫面本身：植物在長，而且不必靠種子。
adjective · C2
Relating to plants, and especially to the way they grow and feed, and to making new plants from a piece of a parent plant instead of from a seed.
營養生長的
核心畫面
You can think of vegetative as the way a plant is alive. A plant takes in water, puts out leaves, gets bigger and makes more of itself — and none of it is decided by anything. Living and growing happen; choosing does not. Both uses of the word sit on that picture.
vegetative 可以想成「植物那種活法」。植物喝水、長葉子、長大、甚至自己長出新的一株，可是這些事沒有誰在後面…更多收起
vegetative 可以想成「植物那種活法」。植物喝水、長葉子、長大、甚至自己長出新的一株，可是這些事沒有誰在後面決定。活著和生長照常發生，選擇不發生。這個字的兩個用法，底下都是這幅畫面。From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces it through Middle French vegetatif and Medieval Latin vegetativus to Latin vegetare, to make grow or enliven — so growing has been the centre of the word from the start.
來源資料把它追到中古法文 végétatif、中世紀拉丁文 vegetativus，再到拉丁文 vegetare（使生長、使有活力）。也就是說，「長」這件事從一開始就在這個字的中心。
Wiktionary (kaikki) entry for 'vegetative' supplied in the evidence packet: 'From Middle French végétatif, from Medieval Latin vegetativus, from past participle stem of vegetare.' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:808991522:4157)
Two branches
只剩下活著，沒有意識
把同一幅畫面放到人身上：身體照常運作，後面卻沒有人在決定。
adjective · C2
Used in 'a vegetative state': a condition in which someone's brain has been so badly damaged that they cannot think or move on purpose, although the body goes on working.
植物人狀態