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Vegetation   /vˌɛdʒətˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Vegetation

noun
1.
All the plant life in a particular region or period.  Synonyms: botany, flora.  "The flora of southern California" , "The botany of China"  Antonym: fauna.
2.
The process of growth in plants.
3.
An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart).
4.
Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life.



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"Vegetation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the surveillance of a regiment of cavalry, while infantry and cavalry are placed in all directions with drawn swords and fixed bayonets to preserve order. Being a gravelly sandy soil, in almost daily requisition for the exercise and training of troops, no symptoms of vegetation can be expected, and the course is as hard as the ride in Rotten Row or ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees
... finds a box or a hole somewhere; the Red-Wing haunts the marshy thickets, safer in spring than at any other season; and even the sociable Robin prefers a pine-tree to an apple-tree, if resolved to begin housekeeping prematurely. The movements of birds are chiefly timed by the advance of vegetation; and the thing most thoroughly surprising about them is not the general fact of the change of latitude, but their accuracy in hitting the precise locality. That the same Cat-Bird should find its way back, every spring, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... a great many kinds of bugs on the leaves and flowers in summer, and some of them do much damage by eating the vegetation. ...
— The Insect Folk • Margaret Warner Morley
... The vegetation is already in an active state of demonstration, sprouting into lovely pale green and vivid red-brown buds and leaflets, though 'tis ...
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble
... beyond them, the dissolving views of late afternoon began to throw up a succession of lovely ranges, pierced by valleys, glens, and gorges. Where the eye had ached with the harsh red of the rocks spread with the harsh green of the scant vegetation, soft vapors rose insensibly—purple, pink, and orange—changing into nameless hues as they climbed into the great clefts and veiled the rolling domes and swathed the pinnacles and furrowed the deep passes and put the horizon infinitely far away. The transmutation ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King


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