vegetates
- present tense form of vegetate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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It has been stated, on high authority, that drainage raises the temperature of the soil, often as much as 15° F. Indian corn vegetates at about 55°.
From Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by French, Henry F. (Henry Flagg)
Taken as a whole, nobody could at first sight distinguish it in any way from the waving weed among which it vegetates.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant
These are spores of a very influential vegetable, called alg�, which spreads like cholera and vegetates anywhere in water that is not of torrential temperament.
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
It is a region of desert mountains, where frost and snow continually reign, where the sun never shines, no plant vegetates, and no animal lives.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
As a safer variety in the Lancaster district Mr. Jones has substituted the Faust from Bamberg, S. C., which vegetates later in spring and thus far has proved less subject to injury.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association
