vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
will vegetate
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future tenseof vegetate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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When this is not done, seeds will vegetate very unevenly, and, in dry weather, some of them not at all.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
It is four or five weeks in coming up, unless it be soaked twelve hours in a little sulphur-water, when it will vegetate in two weeks.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
Seeds planted in soil left coarse and uneven, will vegetate unevenly, grow unequally, ripen at different times, and produce unequal quantities.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
It must not be supposed, however, that every seed will vegetate.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
From a small eye or a small potato to the largest they will vegetate equally well.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
