vegetation

veg·e·ta·tion  (vj-tshn)

n.

1. The act or process of vegetating.

2. The plants of an area or a region; plant life: The vegetation is lush on the Hawaiian Islands.

3. Pathology An abnormal growth on the body.

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vege·tation·al adj.

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vegetation

Noun

plant life as a whole

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vegetation  (vj-tshn)

1. The plants of an area or a region; plant life.

2. An abnormal bodily accretion, especially a clot composed largely of fused blood platelets, fibrin, and sometimes bacteria, that adheres to a diseased heart valve.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" botany, flora plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole biota, biology - all the plant and animal life of a particular region browse - vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat; "a deer needs to eat twenty pounds of browse every day" brush, coppice, copse, thicket, brushwood - a dense growth of bushes growth - vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" chaparral, scrub, bush - dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes stand - a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area; "they cut down a stand of trees" forest, woods, wood - the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area shrubbery - a collection of shrubs growing together garden - the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden brier, brier patch, brierpatch - tangled mass of prickly plants ground cover, groundcover - low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow mown, cut - (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of newly mown hay" unmown, uncut - (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine; "uncut grass"; "an unmown lawn"
	2.	vegetation - the process of growth in plants growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
	3.	vegetation - an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) excrescence - (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
	4.	vegetation - inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation" dormancy, quiescence, quiescency, sleeping - quiet and inactive restfulness

Translations

vegetation [vɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən] n → vegetación f

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vegetation [vɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən] n → végétation f

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vegetation [vɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən] n (plants) → Vegetation f

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vegetation [vɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən] n → vegetazione f