Meaning

4 senses
  1. (uncountable)Plants, taken collectively.

    There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.

    Vegetation, Pflanzenwuchs

    расти́тельностьrastítelʹnostʹ

    росли́нністьroslýnnistʹ

    the process of growth in plants

  2. (countable, uncountable)An abnormal mass on an endocardial surface, especially a heart valve, composed chiefly of fibrin and platelets and often containing microorganisms.

  3. (countable, dated)An excrescent, verrucous or fibrinous growth on a mucosal or epithelial surface.

  4. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

Examples

34 sentences
  1. The vegetation was thick and lush.

    ruРастительность была густой и пышной.

    deDie Vegetation war dicht und üppig.

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  2. The centipede maneuvered through the dense vegetation.

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  3. The vegetation of tropical trees is luxurious.

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  4. Ziri's clothes got wet from the damp vegetation.

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  5. The vegetation is being replaced by factories and highways.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
plants:
Русский
By meaning 1
plants:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
plants:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.

Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.

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Forms

plural: vegetations
Singularvegetation
Pluralvegetations

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • all the plant life in a particular region or period:florabotany

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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