noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

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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6. 6
   all the plant life in a particular region or period wordnet
7. 7
   the process of growth in plants wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

a wise passivenessabeyanceapathybotanybotanybudding

Example

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"This land is covered by a verdant carpet of lush vegetation."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.

Related phrases

vegetation of salts

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