vegetation

Nouns

  • (n) all the plant life in a particular region or period
    • Pleistocene vegetation
    • the flora of southern California
    • the botany of China
    botany, flora,
  • (n) the process of growth in plants
  • (n) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
  • (n) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
    • their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation

Synonyms

botany flora

Antonyms

fauna zoology

Words of close approximity

vegetative
vegetational