VEGETATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does vegetation mean?
• VEGETATION (noun)
The noun VEGETATION has 4 senses:
1. all the plant life in a particular region or period
2. the process of growth in plants
3. an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
4. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
Familiarity information: VEGETATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• VEGETATION (noun)
Meaning:
All the plant life in a particular region or period
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
botany; flora; vegetation
Context examples:
Pleistocene vegetation / the flora of southern California / the botany of China
Hypernyms ("vegetation" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Domain category:
flora; plant; plant life (a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Domain member category:
cut; mown ((used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine)
uncut; unmown ((used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine)
sprouted ((of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground)
dried-up; sear; sere; shriveled; shrivelled; withered ((used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vegetation"):
ground cover; groundcover (low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow)
brier; brier patch; brierpatch (tangled mass of prickly plants)
garden (the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden)
shrubbery (a collection of shrubs growing together)
forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)
stand (a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area)
bush; chaparral; scrub (dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes)
growth (vegetation that has grown)
brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket (a dense growth of bushes)
Holonyms ("vegetation" is a member of...):
biology; biota (all the plant and animal life of a particular region)
Meaning:
The process of growth in plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("vegetation" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Meaning:
An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("vegetation" is a kind of...):
excrescence ((pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body)
Meaning:
Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation
Hypernyms ("vegetation" is a kind of...):
dormancy; quiescence; quiescency; sleeping (quiet and inactive restfulness)
