vegetation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vegetation	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vegetation n all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" Synonym(s): vegetation, flora, botany Antonym(s): fauna, zoology the process of growth in plants an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vegetation \Veg`eta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. v[82]g[82]tation, 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.) 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.