sative

Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.

Adjective

  1. Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.
    • Tabacco… Translated out of India in the seed or roote; Natiue or satiue in our own fruitfullest soiles. - 1599, Henry Buttes, Dyets Drie Dinner, P4b:
    • These [trees] we shall divide into the greater and more ceduous…and such as are sative and hortensial. - 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva; or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s...
    • The wild Pine differs no otherwise from the Sative. - 1725, “Pine”, in Bradley’s Family Dictionary:

Origin

From Latin satīvus (“that may be sown or planted”).

Forms

satiue

Related

sativous