ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ING2.]
1. Characterized by, associated with, or causing vegetation.
1704. Ray, Creation (ed. 4), I. 95. It’s not unlikely, that the Rain-water may be endued with some vegetating or prolifick Vertue.
1768. Phil. Trans., LVIII. 78. Seeds in a vegetating state.
1794. Sullivan, View Nat., II. 48. The vegetating power which is operating during the whole year in evergreens.
1800. Asiatic Ann. Reg., 265/1. Root fleshy,… soon after taken out of the earth becomes highly scented, which it retains as long as in a vegetating state.
2. Exhibiting vegetation or growth.
1783. Justamond, trans. Raynal’s Hist. Indies, VI. 313. Six veins of vegetating earth, which were in process of time discovered, received sugar canes.
1796. Withering, 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., April, 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. Vines, trans. Sachs’s Bot., 630. The Lemnaceæ consist of small branched leafless floating vegetating bodies.
