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Vegetation

/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/

Plants, taken collectively.

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noun
  1. 1

    Plants, taken collectively.

    "There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest."

  2. 2

    An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth

  3. 3

    The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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floranounPlants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

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faunanoun(uncountable) Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time.

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floranounPlants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
vegetativeOf or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
shrubnounA woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
vegetablenounA plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
weednoun(uncountable, informal, originally slang) Cannabis.
botanynoun(uncountable) A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
botanicalnoun(cosmetics, cooking, medicine) Something derived from a botanical, especially herbal, source.
plantnoun(botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
revegetationnounThe act or process of revegetating
vegetariannounA person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.
vegannounA person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products
grassnoun(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
cropnoun(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
habitatnoun(countable, biology) A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
chloridenoun(chemistry) Any binary compound of chlorine and another element or radical.
speciesnoun(biology) A group of sexually reproducing organisms of which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction, usually having similar appearance.
wildlandnounLand that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
covernounA lid.
shorelinenounThe divide between land and a body of water.
canopynounThe zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.

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