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  • adjective Having no vegetation

Etymologies

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From un- +‎ vegetated

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Examples

  • Given the dense population of people per park, our natural areas show signs of wear and tear - mountain bike tire ruts, charred stumps from arson, strewn litter, bare, unvegetated patches, exposed mineral soil.

    Marielle Anzelone: NYC Nature 101: Urban Ecology Marielle Anzelone 2011

  • Within a year of purchasing the $400,000 home, they found out their eroding, unvegetated cliffs were one of the last remaining habitats of the endangered Puritan tiger beetle.

    From Calvert County cliffside properties, homeowners battle tiger beetle, time Christy Goodman 2010

  • Given the dense population of people per park, our natural areas show signs of wear and tear - mountain bike tire ruts, charred stumps from arson, strewn litter, bare, unvegetated patches, exposed mineral soil.

    Marielle Anzelone: NYC Nature 101: Urban Ecology Marielle Anzelone 2011

  • Given the dense population of people per park, our natural areas show signs of wear and tear - mountain bike tire ruts, charred stumps from arson, strewn litter, bare, unvegetated patches, exposed mineral soil.

    Marielle Anzelone: NYC Nature 101: Urban Ecology Marielle Anzelone 2011

  • Given the dense population of people per park, our natural areas show signs of wear and tear - mountain bike tire ruts, charred stumps from arson, strewn litter, bare, unvegetated patches, exposed mineral soil.

    Marielle Anzelone: NYC Nature 101: Urban Ecology Marielle Anzelone 2011

  • These systems are very different from the numerous small, intermittent, frequently unvegetated depressions that occur in the mid-western and eastern United States, which are also refered to as vernal pools.

    Vernal pool 2010

  • There are approximately 300 coral cays, including 213 unvegetated cays, 43 vegetated cays and 44 low wooded islands.

    Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia 2009

  • Mangrove ecosystems are threatened by conversion to agricultural areas that are used for low productivity crop and part of these areas often remains unvegetated because of regular inundation.

    Gulf of Panama mangroves 2008

  • They harbor, virtually without exception, more animals and more species than nearby unvegetated areas.

    Seagrass meadows 2008

  • Huancane I moraines are unvegetated and, although present in all valleys surrounding the Quelccaya Ice Cap, are not dated directly in the main Huancane Valley.

    Some Geologists at Quelccaya « Climate Audit 2006

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