vegetation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

   Our holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation.

2. 2
   noun

   all the plant life in a particular region or period

   There is vegetation all over our backyard.

3. 3
   noun

   Plants, taken collectively.

   There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.

4. 4
   noun

   an abnormal growth or excrescence, especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart

5. 5
   noun

   the process of growth in plants

6. 6
   noun

   An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth

7. 7
   noun

   The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.