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Vegetation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VEGETA'TION, n.
1. The process of growing; as plants, by means of nourishment derived from the earth, or from water and air, and received through roots and leaves. We observe that vegetation depends on heat as the moving principle, and on certain substances which constitute the nutriment of plants. Rapid vegetation is caused by increased heat and a rich soil.
2. Vegetables or plants in general. In June, vegetation in our climate wears a beautiful aspect.
Vegetation of salts, so called, consists in certain concretions formed by salts, after solution in water, when set in the air for evaporation. these concretions appear round the surface of the liquor, affixed to the sides of the vessel.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology]
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"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1564 1. the act or process of vegetating 2. inert existence 3. plant life or total plant cover (as of an area) 4. an abnormal growth upon a body part <fibrin vegetations on the mitral valve> • vegetational adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 plants collectively; plant life (luxuriant vegetation; no sign of vegetation). 2 the process of vegetating. Derivatives: vegetational adj. Etymology: med.L vegetatio growth (as VEGETATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vegetation Veg`e*ta"tion, n. [Cf. F. v['e]g['e]tation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.] 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. 2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. 3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Plants, trees, and flowers can be referred to as vegetation. (FORMAL) The inn has a garden of semi-tropical vegetation. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Vegetable growth, process of vegetating. 2. Plants, vegetables, the sum of vegetable life.

Moby Thesaurus

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