noun
Meaning 1
Plants, taken collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: verdure
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
vegetation
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/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/
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noun
Meaning 2
An abnormal mass on an endocardial surface, especially a heart valve, composed chiefly of fibrin and platelets and often containing microorganisms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An excrescent, verrucous or fibrinous growth on a mucosal or epithelial surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping
noun
Meaning 6
an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: excrescence
noun
Meaning 7
all the plant life in a particular region or period
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Pleistocene vegetation
- the flora of southern California
- the botany of China
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flora, botany
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
Narrower terms: browse, brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket, growth, scrub, chaparral, bush, stand, forest, wood, woods, shrubbery, garden, brier, brierpatch, brier patch, groundcover, ground cover
noun
Meaning 8
the process of growth in plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.
Across languages
Translations
85 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: bimësi — plants
- Arabic: خُضْرَة (ḵuḍra) — plants
- Arabic: عَشَابَة (ʕašāba) — plants
- Arabic: نَبَات (nabāt) — plants
- Arabic: نَبَاتَات (nabātāt) — plants
- Arabic: مَخْضَرَة (maḵḍara) — plants
- Armenian: բուսականություն (busakanutʻyun) — plants
- Asturian: vexetación — plants
- Belarusian: раслі́ннасць (raslínnascʹ) — plants
- Breton: struzh — plants
- Bulgarian: расти́телност (rastítelnost) — plants
- Catalan: vegetació — plants
- Chinese Mandarin: 植被 (zhíbèi) — plants
- Chinese Mandarin: 草木 (cǎomù) — plants
- Czech: porost — plants
- Czech: vegetace — plants
- Danish: plantevækst — plants
- Danish: vegetation — plants
- Dutch: vegetatie — plants
- Dutch: begroeiing — plants
- Esperanto: vegetaĵaro — plants
- Estonian: taimkate — plants
- Faroese: gróður — plants
- Finnish: kasvillisuus — plants
- French: végétation — plants
- Galician: vexetación — plants
- Georgian: მცენარეულობა (mcenareuloba) — plants
- Georgian: ვეგეტაცია (vegeṭacia) — plants
- German: Vegetation — plants
- German: Pflanzenwuchs — plants
- Greek: βλάστηση (vlástisi) — plants
- Hebrew: צוֹמֵחַ (tsomeakh) — plants
- Hindi: वनस्पति (vanaspati) — plants
- Hungarian: vegetáció — plants
- Icelandic: gróður — plants
- Indonesian: vegetasi — plants
- Italian: vegetazione — plants
- Japanese: 草木 (kusaki) — plants
- Japanese: 植生 (shokusei) — plants
- Korean: 식생 (siksaeng) — plants
- Korean: 초목 (chomok) — plants
- Latin: vegetātiō — plants
- Latvian: augājs — plants
- Lithuanian: augalija — plants
- Macedonian: вегетација (vegetacija) — plants
- Malay: vegetasi — plants
- Māori: raurēkau — plants
- Māori: mauti — plants
- Māori: māheuheu — plants
- Navajo: chʼil — plants
- Navajo: tsin — plants
- Norwegian Bokmål: vegetasjon — plants
- Occitan: vegetacion — plants
- Polish: roślinność — plants
- Portuguese: vegetação — plants
- Romanian: vegetație — plants
- Russian: расти́тельность (rastítelʹnostʹ) — plants
- Sardinian: matédu — plants
- Sardinian: matéri — plants
- Serbo-Croatian: вегета́ција — plants
- Serbo-Croatian: ра́слӣње — plants
- Serbo-Croatian: vegetácija — plants
- Serbo-Croatian: ráslīnje — plants
- Slovak: vegetácia — plants
- Slovak: porast — plants
- Slovene: rastlinstvo — plants
- Spanish: vegetación — plants
- Swahili: uoto — plants
- Swedish: vegetation — plants
- Tagalog: kahalmanan — plants
- Tagalog: kahalamanan — plants
- Tagalog: behetasyon — plants
- Tatar: үсемлек (üsemlek) — plants
- Turkish: vejetasyon — plants
- Turkish: bitki örtüsü — plants
- Turkish: yeşillik — plants
- Turkish: nebatat — plants
- Ukrainian: росли́нність (roslýnnistʹ) — plants
- Vietnamese: cây cối — plants
- Vietnamese: cây cỏ — plants
- Vietnamese: thực vật — plants
- Volapük: planem — plants
- Volapük: planaglof — plants
- Welsh: llystyfiant — plants
- Yiddish: גרינסן (grinsn) — plants
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