Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of vegetating.
- n. The plants of an area or a region; plant life: The vegetation is lush on the Hawaiian Islands.
- n. Pathology An abnormal growth on the body.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In phytogeography, the sum total, or a local aggregate, of plant individuals, often of many species, viewed with reference to their ecological adjustment to each other and to all the efficient factors of their environment: contrasted with flora, which denotes a scheme of species rather than a sum of individuals.
- n. The act or process of vegetating; the process of growing exhibited by plants.
- n. Plants collectively: as, luxuriant vegetation.
- n. In pathology, an excrescence or growth on any surface of the body.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Plants, taken collectively.
- n. pathology, countable An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
- n. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general.
- n. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
WordNet 3.0
- n. all the plant life in a particular region or period
- n. an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
- n. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
- n. the process of growth in plants
Etymologies
- From Middle French végétation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Hence genus and species stand in subaltern relation, and whatever is true of the genus is true of the species: If _All animal life is dependent on vegetation, All human life is dependent on vegetation_.”
“During May through December, the vegetation is a lush jungle green, offering a great variety of eco-tourism activities to give you full contact with the wonders of nature.”
“Arizona vegetation is tough and extremely well defended (as anyone knows who has brushed carelessly against a prickly-pear cactus).”
“The surrounding vegetation is dense and thick, including a thousand shades of green, hundreds of dancing palm trees, giant lime trees, mahogany trees, and an abundance of papaya, mango, banana trees.”
“The predominant vegetation is agave under cultivation -- occasionally on the steepest of hillsides -- and mixed brush, with pole cactus and palm interspersed.”
A driving tour from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas and Palenque: Part One
“It's formed by walls at least 50 yards high that look like flat-topped hills, tapering from roughly 65 yards thick at their base to 45 yards at their tops, which are covered in vegetation and trees.”
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“If you think of places where it is rich in vegetation, it seems like there is so much of it that you almost get lost in it.”
“Above the tree line at about 2,600 m, the vegetation is subalpine.”
“Have a buddy act as blocker at a point in or along a ditch or any depression where the vegetation is thicker than the surrounding field, then you push toward your buddy down the ditch.”
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks.
“The increase in vegetation on degraded land also acts as a natural filter for drinking water.”
The Huffington Post: Ethan Budiansky: The Roots of Cholera in Haiti: A Lack of Trees
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vegetation’.
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
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Naresh_Gre
The path meanders through the vineyards
meander, labyrinth, Sinuous, gyrate, caron, awry, credo, banter, juxtaposition, argot, inexorable, foibles and 223 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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My Necessary
condescend, approbation, precursor, vie, jostle, vegetation, exhaust, technocrat, preside, exacerbate, counterproductive, contrive and 22 more...
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verdure
word garden
botany, flora, flowerage, greenery, herbage, vegetation, verdure, horticulture, husbandry, herb, annual, blossom and 72 more...
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Land and climate
obsidian, desert, snowfall, rainfall, hill, cloud, sunflower, meadow, woods, starlight, weed, mineral and 68 more...
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growing things
leaf, arboreal, copse, thicket, elder, conifer, hawthorn, ponderosa, spruce, hemlock, poplar, pine and 47 more...
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Words and life
Developing word understanding
logic, reason, rationale, faith, persuasion, attribute, system, power, principality, perception, behavior, interaction and 62 more...
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