Definitions for vegetationˌvɛdʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃən

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

veg•e•ta•tionˌvɛdʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃən(n.)

  1. all the plants or plant life of a place.

    Category: Botany

  2. the act or process of vegetating.

  3. a passive existence.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. vegetation, flora, botany(noun)

    all the plant life in a particular region or period

    "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"

  2. vegetation(noun)

    the process of growth in plants

  3. vegetation(noun)

    an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)

  4. vegetation(noun)

    inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

    "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"

Wiktionary

  1. vegetation(Noun)

    Plants collectively.

    There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.

  2. Origin: From végétation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vegetation(noun)

    the act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth

  2. Vegetation(noun)

    the sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation

  3. Vegetation(noun)

    an exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart


Translations for vegetation

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

vegetation(noun)

plants in general; plants of a particular region or type

tropical vegetation.

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