vegetation

noun

1. 1

   Plants, taken collectively.

   There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.

   Thus the growth of vegetation, though effected in a greater or less degree by the strong wind, the violent rain, and the heat and glare of the noonday sun, is yet still more effectually promoted by the mild action of the gentler breezes, the softly descending dew, and the less intense heat.

   As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; […]

   Similarity of vegetation on meadows was the result of heavy grazing and trampling by large numbers of driveway sheep before the study was begun.

2. 2

   An abnormal mass on an endocardial surface, especially a heart valve, composed chiefly of fibrin and platelets and often containing microorganisms.

3. 3

   datedAn excrescent, verrucous or fibrinous growth on a mucosal or epithelial surface.

4. 4

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

Forms

plural

vegetations