vegetation

Meanings

Plural: vegetations

Noun

• all the plant life in a particular region or period
  • "Pleistocene vegetation"
• 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"
• Plants, taken collectively.
• An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
• The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

Synonyms

botany, flora, verdure

Antonyms

fauna