English noun: vegetation | |||
1. | vegetation (group) all the plant life in a particular region or period | ||
Samples | Pleistocene vegetation. The flora of southern California. The botany of China. | ||
Synonyms | botany, flora | ||
Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | brier, brier patch, brierpatch, browse, brush, brushwood, bush, chaparral, coppice, copse, forest, garden, ground cover, groundcover, growth, scrub, shrubbery, stand, thicket, wood, woods | ||
Member meronym | biology, biota | ||
Domain category | flora, plant, plant life | ||
Domain category members | cut, dried-up, mown, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, sprouted, uncut, unmown, withered | ||
Antonyms | fauna, zoology | ||
2. | vegetation (process) the process of growth in plants | ||
Broader (hypernym) | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny | ||
3. | vegetation (body) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | excrescence | ||
4. | vegetation (act) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | ||
Samples | Their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | dormancy, quiescence, quiescency, sleeping | ||