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Vegetation

//ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Plants, taken collectively. uncountable

    "There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest."

  2. 2
    inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life wordnet
  3. 3
    An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth countable
  4. 4
    an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) wordnet
  5. 5
    The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    all the plant life in a particular region or period wordnet
  2. 7
    the process of growth in plants wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.

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