Vegetation \Veg`e*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. v['e]g['e]tation, L.
vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.]
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1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant
does; vegetable growth.
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2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in
general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
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3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part,
especially upon the valves of the heart.
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Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an
arborescent form.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vegetation
n 1: all the plant life in a particular region [syn: flora]
[ant: fauna]
2: the process of growth in plants
3: an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty
excrescence on the valves of the heart)
4: inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the
inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in
sleep and vegetation"
WordNet (r) 2.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "vegetation":
a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, botany, budding, burgeoning,
catalepsy, catatonia, contemplation, contemplative life,
deadliness, deathliness, development, do-nothing policy,
do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, entropy, excrescence,
flora, flowerage, gemmation, germination, greenery, greens, growth,
herbage, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indifference,
indolence, inertia, inertness, just being, laissez-aller,
laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, latency, lotus-eating,
luxuriation, maturation, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism,
neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement,
nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
nonviolent resistance, outgrowth, overgrowth, pacifism, paralysis,
passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness,
passivism, passivity, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, policy,
procrastination, procreation, pullulation, quiescence, quietism,
reproduction, sloth, sprouting, stagnancy, stagnation,
standpattism, stasis, suspense, torpor, upgrowth,
vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation spirit, verdure,
vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
watching and waiting
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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