vegetive

English

Adjective

vegetive (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) vegetable
2. Of or pertaining to vegetation.

   Synonym: vegetative

Noun

vegetive (plural vegetives)

1. (obsolete) vegetable
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 2]:

     I have
     (Together with my practice) made familiar
     To me and to my aid, the blest infusions
     That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones

   • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:

     Hence vegetives receive their fragrant birth, / And clothe the naked bosom of the earth.