VEGETATION

vegetation

(noun) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; “their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation”

vegetation

(noun) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)

vegetation, flora, botany

(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period; “Pleistocene vegetation”; “the flora of southern California”; “the botany of China”

vegetation

(noun) the process of growth in plants

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

vegetation (countable and uncountable, plural vegetations)

(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.

(pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth

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

Source: Wiktionary

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Veg`e*ta"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.]

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

2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.

3. (Med.)

Definition: An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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