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How to pronounce vegetation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms botany, flora
Type of aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage
Has types forest, brier, brier patch, brierpatch, browse, brush, brushwood, bush, chaparral, coppice, copse, garden, ground cover, groundcover, growth, scrub, shrubbery, stand, thicket, wood, woods
Derivation vegetate


Pleistocene vegetation.
Type Words
Type of excrescence
Derivation vegetate
Type Words
Type of quiescence, sleeping, quiescency, dormancy
Derivation vegetate


their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation.
Type Words
Type of development, ontogeny, ontogenesis, maturation, growth, growing
Derivation vegetate

Examples of vegetation

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The flowing river frames and lines the rich green of the surrounding vegetation.
From the theepochtimes.com
False-color image from Terra satellite in August, 2009, shows vegetation in red.
From the ocregister.com
Most mornings, he picked spent syringes out of the vegetation around the office.
From the thenewstribune.com
It's not just farmers these days who use toxic substances to control vegetation.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Raft the canyons and see the waterfalls and lush vegetation of the Cetina River.
From the dailymercury.com.au
They'll eat just about anything, including vegetation, rubbish, berries, scraps.
From the canberratimes.com.au
For instance, they regularly measure the changes in soil surface and vegetation.
From the sciencedaily.com
Much of the 200 acres are overgrown with vegetation, giving them a ghostly feel.
From the bostonherald.com
This is particularly useful when you are moving slowly through heavy vegetation.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • All the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
  • The process of growth in plants
  • An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
  • Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"
  • (vegetational) vegetal: composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor"
  • Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of a region; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. ...
  • Plants collectively
  • (Vegetations) Small nodular structures composed of bacteria and clots that form along the edge of cusps in a valve opening.
  • (n) Plant life in general (Webster s, 1988).