'Vegetation' definitions:
Definition of 'vegetation'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
noun
The process of growth in plants
noun
An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
noun
Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"
Definition of 'Vegetation'
From: GCIDE
- Vegetation \Veg`e*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. v['e]g['e]tation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. [1913 Webster]
- Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vegetation'
From: 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
Words containing 'Vegetation'
- Vegetability,
- Vegetable,
- Vegetal,
- Vegetality,
- Vegetate,
- Vegetated,
- Vegetating,
- Vegetative,
- Vegetatively,
- Vegetativeness,
- Vegete,
- Vegetism,
- Vegetive,
- Vegetous,
- vegetational,
- Vegetable alkali,
- Vegetable brimstone,
- Vegetable butter,
- Vegetable flannel,
- Vegetable gelatin,
- Vegetable ivory,
- Vegetable jelly,
- Vegetable kingdom,
- Vegetable leather,
- Vegetable marrow,
- Vegetable metamorphosis,
- Vegetable oyster,
- Vegetable parchment,
- Vegetable sheep,
- Vegetable silk,
- Vegetable sponge,
- Vegetable sulphur,
- Vegetable tallow,
- Vegetable wax,
- Vegetation of salts,
- cruciferous vegetable,
- julienne vegetable,
- leafy vegetable,
- raw vegetable,
- root vegetable,
- solanaceous vegetable,
- vegetable albumin,
- vegetable fibrin,
- vegetable garden,
- vegetable hummingbird,
- vegetable matter,
- vegetable oil,
- vegetable patch,
- vegetable pear,
- vegetable soup,
- vegetable turpeth,
- vegetative cell,
- italian vegetable marrow