has particulars: browse, brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket, growth, bush, chaparral, scrub, stand, forest, wood, woods, shrubbery, garden, brier, brier patch, brierpatch, ground cover, groundcover

Derived forms verb vegetate₂, adjective vegetational₁

vegetation(n = noun.process) Array - the process of growth in plants; Array

is a kind of

development

Derived forms verb vegetate₄, verb vegetate₃

vegetation(n = noun.body) Array - an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart); Array

is a kind of

excrescence

Derived form verb vegetate₅

vegetation(n = noun.act) Array - inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"

Derived forms verb vegetate₇, verb vegetate₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

vegetation, n. [Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.].

The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. [1913 Webster]
The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. [1913 Webster]
An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. [1913 Webster]

Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

vegetation, n.
1 plants collectively; plant life (luxuriant vegetation; no sign of vegetation).
2 the process of vegetating.

Derivative

vegetational adj.

Etymology

med.L vegetatio growth (as VEGETATE)

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THESAURUS

vegetation

a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, botany, budding, burgeoning, catalepsy, catatonia, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, development, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, entropy, excrescence, flora, flowerage, gemmation, germination, greenery, greens, growth, herbage, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, just being, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, latency, lotus-eating, luxuriation, maturation, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, outgrowth, overgrowth, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, policy, procrastination, procreation, pullulation, quiescence, quietism, reproduction, sloth, sprouting, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, torpor, upgrowth, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation spirit, verdure, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

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ROGET THESAURUS

vegetation

Insensibility

N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.

Vegetability^

N vegetability, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetability, vegetality, rank, lush, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive.

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