Engelsk navneord: 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. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | botany, flora | ||
| Mindre specifikke termer | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
| Mere specifikke termer | 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 termer | biology, biota | ||
| Overordnet emneområde | flora, plant, plant life | ||
| Indenfor samme emneområde | cut, dried-up, mown, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, sprouted, uncut, unmown, withered | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | fauna, zoology | ||
| 2. | vegetation (om proces) the process of growth in plants | ||
| Mindre specifikke termer | 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 specifikke termer | 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 specifikke termer | dormancy, quiescence, quiescency, sleeping | ||