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VEGETATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
Example:
their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("vegetation" is a kind of...):
dormancy; quiescence; quiescency; sleeping (quiet and inactive restfulness)
Derivation:
vegetate (engage in passive relaxation)
vegetate (lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vegetation" is a kind of...):
excrescence ((pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body)
Derivation:
vegetate (grow or spread abnormally)
Sense 3
Meaning:
All the plant life in a particular region or period
Example:
the botany of China
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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 ((botany) 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"):
browse (vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat)
brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket (a dense growth of bushes)
growth (vegetation that has grown)
bush; chaparral; scrub (dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes)
stand (a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area)
forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)
shrubbery (a collection of shrubs growing together)
garden (the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden)
brier; brier patch; brierpatch (tangled mass of prickly plants)
ground cover; groundcover (low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow)
Holonyms ("vegetation" is a member of...):
biology; biota (all the plant and animal life of a particular region)
Derivation:
vegetate (establish vegetation on)
Sense 4
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)
Derivation:
vegetate (grow like a plant)
vegetate (produce vegetation)
Context examples:
The simium type of the disease is transmitted from monkeys to humans by bites of Anopheles Kertezia cruzii mosquitoes, which are only found in places of dense vegetation.
(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)
Scientists have developed a new explanation: rapid vegetation changes related to climate fluctuations between arid and moist climates and the resulting extensive wildfires of the time.
(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)
Hence there is a considerable change both in the temperature and in the vegetation.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
M. mesophilicum is an opportunistic but rare human pathogen and is normally found from environmental sources such as soil and vegetation.
(Methylobacterium mesophilicum, NCI Thesaurus)
B. gladioli is found on the gladiolus plant where it is pathogenic, causes vegetation to decay, and is pathogenic to humans.
(Burkholderia gladioli, NCI Thesaurus)
Such dust emissions from the Southern Hemisphere have been relatively low, but reductions in vegetation cover due to land use or climate change may allow new sources like the Kalahari to emerge.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
The droughtlike conditions that exist in heat waves reduce soil moisture, making near-surface temperatures hotter and inhibiting the role played by vegetation in absorbing ozone, resulting in lower air quality.
(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The hills ran up clear above the vegetation in spires of naked rock.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
From 2015 to 2016, Bahia was the state most severely hit by deforestation—12,288 hectares cleared, 207% higher than the previous 3,997 hectares of native vegetation devastated.
(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)
B. cenocepacia is naturally found in soil, water and vegetation and is capable of degrading industrial waste, herbicides, and vegetation as well as producing many antibacterial and antifungal agents.
(Burkholderia cenocepacia, NCI Thesaurus)
