Engelsk substantiv: vegetation | |||
1. | vegetation (om gruppe) all the plant life in a particular region or period | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Pleistocene vegetation. The flora of southern California. The botany of China. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | botany, flora | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | brier, brier patch, brierpatch, browse, brush, brushwood, bush, chaparral, coppice, copse, forest, garden, ground cover, groundcover, growth, scrub, shrubbery, stand, thicket, wood, woods | ||
Tilhører disse overordnede uttrykkene | biology, biota | ||
Overordnet kategori | flora, plant, plant life | ||
Forekomster i samme kategori | cut, dried-up, mown, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, sprouted, uncut, unmown, withered | ||
Uttrykk med motsatt betydning (antonymer) | fauna, zoology | ||
2. | vegetation (om prosess) the process of growth in plants | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny | ||
3. | vegetation (i anatomi) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | excrescence | ||
4. | vegetation (om handling) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | dormancy, quiescence, quiescency, sleeping | ||