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UK
/vˌɛdʒɪtˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌvɛdʒəˈteɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌvɛdʒəˈteɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the process of growth in plants
- an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
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inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation -
all the plant life in a particular region or period
the flora of southern California
Pleistocene vegetation
the botany of China
How To Use vegetation In A Sentence
- Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
- Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
- Dense vegetation may conceal the nests and reduce the risk of predation.
- The natural vegetation on most of it is tall lowland forest, with shorter montane forests at higher elevations.
- The department would also help people who had suffered the consequences of fire, resulting from uncleared invasive alien vegetation, to take civil action against those responsible.
- Although Mitchell grasses (Astrebla spp.) may be common along drainage lines in adjacent lowland ecoregions (Gulf Plains and Channel Country), it is only in the downs that Mitchell grasses dominate regional vegetation. Mitchell grass downs
- Some parts of the country are almost bare of vegetation.
- As there were no crushing teeth in the mouth, vegetation must have been swallowed and then crushed in a gizzard similar to that found in many birds.
- He wanted to work on the vegetation inventory for a pitcher plant bog he had going.
- Where vegetation composition is altered and floral richness threatened, the results will ultimately be felt by us all.