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Webster 1913 Edition
Vegetation
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vegetation
VEGETA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The process of growing; as plants, by means of nourishment derived from the earth, or from water and air, and received through roots and leaves. We observe that vegetation depends on heat as the moving principle, and on certain substances which constitute the nutriment of plants. Rapid vegetation is caused by increased heat and a rich soil.2.
Vegetables or plants in general. In June, vegetation in our climate wears a beautiful aspect.Vegetation of salts, so called, consists in certain concretions formed by salts, after solution in water, when set in the air for evaporation. these concretions appear round the surface of the liquor, affixed to the sides of the vessel.
Definition 2024
Vegetation
vegetation
vegetation
See also: Vegetation and végétation
English
Noun
vegetation (countable and uncountable, plural vegetations)
- (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
- 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:
- As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.
- There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
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- (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
- The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
Translations
Plants
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Swedish
Noun
vegetation c
Declension
| Inflection of vegetation | ||||
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| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | vegetation | vegetationen | vegetationer | vegetationerna |
| Genitive | vegetations | vegetationens | vegetationers | vegetationernas |