Noun: vegetation ,ve-ji'tey-shun
- All the plant life in a particular region or period
"Pleistocene vegetation";
- flora, botany
- (botany) the process of plant growth and development
"Proper soil conditions are essential for vegetation"
- Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
"their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"
- (medicine) an abnormal growth on body tissue, especially on heart valves
"The echocardiogram revealed vegetation on the mitral valve"
Derived forms: vegetations
Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, development, dormancy, excrescence, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, quiescence, quiescency
Encyclopedia: Vegetation