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Vegetation

Vegetation Meaning & Definition
Vegetation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Vegetation?

[n] inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"
[n] an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
[n] all the plant life in a particular region
[n] the process of growth in plants

Synonyms | Synonyms for Vegetation: flora

Related Terms | Find terms related to Vegetation:

See Also | accumulation | aggregation | assemblage | biology | biota | brier | brier patch | brierpatch | brush | brushwood | bush | chaparral | collection | coppice | copse | development | dormancy | excrescence | forest | garden | ground cover | groundcover | growing | growth | growth | maturation | ontogenesis | ontogeny | quiescence | quiescency | scrub | shrubbery | sleeping | stand | thicket | wood | woods

Vegetation In Webster's Dictionary

\Veg`e*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. v['e]g['e]tation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See {Vegetable}.] 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. 2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. 3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. {Vegetation of salts} (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.

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