vegetation

noun

1. all the plant life in a particular region or period

- Pleistocene vegetation

Similar word(s): botany, flora

Definition categories: group, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection

2. the process of growth in plants

Definition categories: process, development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny

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

Definition categories: body, excrescence

4. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

- their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation

Definition categories: act, dormancy, quiescence, quiescency, sleeping