About The Word Vegetation
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Vegetation
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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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