vegetation

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noun

1. all the plant life in a particular region or period (Freq. 2)
- Pleistocene vegetation
- the flora of southern California
- the botany of China
• Syn:
flora, botany
• Ant:
fauna (for: flora)
• Derivationally related forms:
vegetate, vegetational
• Topics:
plant, flora, plant life
• Members of this Topic:
mown, cut, unmown, uncut, sprouted,
dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
• Hypernyms:
collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
• Hyponyms:
browse, brush, brushwood, coppice, copse,
thicket, growth, scrub, chaparral, bush, stand,
forest, wood, woods, shrubbery, garden, brier,
brierpatch, brier patch, groundcover, ground cover
• Member Holonyms:
biota, biology
2. the process of growth in plants
• Derivationally related forms:
vegetate
• Hypernyms:
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
3. an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
• Derivationally related forms:
vegetate
• Hypernyms:
excrescence
4. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
- their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation
• Derivationally related forms:
vegetate
• Hypernyms:
quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  flora, botany
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  fauna, zoology