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vegetation

[vej-i-tey-shuhn]

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noun

all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.

the act or process of vegetating.

a dull existence; life devoid of mental or social activity.

Pathology. a morbid growth, or excrescence.

Origin:
1555–65; < Medieval Latin vegetātiōn- (stem of vegetātiō), equivalent to vegetāt- (see vegetate) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

veg·e·ta·tion·al, adjective

veg·e·ta·tion·less, adjective

non·veg·e·ta·tion, noun

pre·veg·e·ta·tion, noun

un·der·veg·e·ta·tion, noun

Synonyms
3. inactivity, idleness, sloth, lethargy.

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Vegetation is always a great word to know.

So is ort. Does it mean:

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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The impact on vegetation and landscapes would transform large areas of the earth.

In other words they eat flesh and vegetation rather than bein plugged into electricity.

Water in reservoirs, especially in water-storage dams, becomes silted with vegetation and matter washed off land upstream.

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The impact on vegetation and landscapes would transform large areas of the earth.

In other words they eat flesh and vegetation rather than bein plugged into electricity.

Water in reservoirs, especially in water-storage dams, becomes silted with vegetation and matter washed off land upstream.

River habitats, called riparian systems, often contain lush vegetation and a wealth of animal species.

Their feathers were messed up by being tumbled over the island and through the vegetation.

Before long, the road begins to climb, trees disappear and rocks outnumber what is left of the vegetation.

The uneven stone rim and creeping vegetation enhance the lazy lagoon mood.

Bare soil or dead vegetation ranges from white to green or brown.

Not only does the methane kill vegetation if it is not siphoned off, it creates smog and contributes to ozone depletion.

The parts of the roof with thicker vegetation were coolest.

Following this, the island's native vegetation went through another round of rapid recovery.

Ask them to click on various colors on the map and try to locate areas of similar vegetation patterns on different continents.

The wet winter produces a lot of vegetation and then the arid winter dries it out so that it burns more easily.

All the dunes need to start moving again is drought prolonged enough to liberate the sand from the fragile grip of vegetation.

Clean leaves from gutters, and remove woody vegetation growing against structures.

Warmer springs result in earlier vegetation growth, which result in earlier mating.

The problem is that this unwanted vegetation is thoroughly camouflaged and usually goes unnoticed until it is well-rooted.

The vegetation overwhelmed by the rising waters decays to form methane-a far worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

The yellow-bellied marmot feeds entirely on green vegetation of many kinds.

The lush riverside vegetation sways as a herd of elephant wends its way between the broken pools.

Russell also notes that city buildings will be so high that there won't be sufficient sunlight for people and vegetation below.

Not only on the vegetation but also making some importatnt changes to the stairs.

Defensible space is an area around a structure where fuels and vegetation are treated to slow the spread of wildfire.

The vegetation crowds out and smothers coral, invertebrates and other organisms native to ocean reefs.

Lush vegetation has crept over buildings destroyed by war.

Stands of bamboo and other vegetation cover mounds of limestone here, making the place all but impenetrable.

The leaves of the upper canopy intercept raindrops and reduce their impact on vegetation and butterflies below.

Their vegetation grows right up to the intersections, making it difficult to see traffic.

Green, healthy vegetation shows up as red in this image.

They have less of the vegetation cover that dissipates heat.

The once-dense tropical vegetation has been cleared.

Their vegetation varies greatly, and they are crucial habitat for many amphibians.

In more remote areas, they may scan for breaks in the vegetation surrounding the structure.

Size is important because with climate change the vegetation zones will shift.

Thylacoleo lacked grinding teeth to chew up the vegetation it supposedly ate.

All vegetation has the potential to burn in wildfires but some species are more flammable and hazardous than others.

Rivers, vegetation and animals are easily cleared away.

Long vistas and the dry season's withered vegetation enable keen eyes to spot game miles away.

In addition, this frequency is not affected too much by the weather, atmosphere and vegetation cover.

In this image, vegetation is displayed in red, and flooded areas are black and dark blue.

The gas burst through the surface with a rumble, generating a giant wave that scoured vegetation from the shores.

The forwardness of vegetation in all parts of the kingdom has lent a.

The houses replace that natural vegetation that holds the soil in place.

Vegetation also shields the roof from ultraviolet radiation, extending its life.

Yet scientists haven¿t actually found enough vegetation to do that.

There were wetter areas with vegetation and interdunal ponds between some of the dunes.

State laws restrict how much land farmers can clear of vegetation that absorbs carbon dioxide.

It looks over a green belt of profuse tropical vegetation intersected by a solitary railway line.

Today, native vegetation occurs in patches and in various states of successional development.

Well, have you considered that your dwelling is destructive to vegetation and wildlife.

The aquatic vegetation began to wither, and the water was getting cloudy.

The native vegetation was ripped up as the newcomers planted wheat, lots of it.

Eco roofs, or green roofs, replace or cover conventional roofs with vegetation.

Sahara has been during last thousands and millions of years covered mostly by lakes, swamps and dense vegetation.

They disrupt native vegetation and make it easier for invasive plants to take hold.

Most of the land where tobacco and maize used to grow lies fallow, taken over by wild vegetation.

Long, fjordlike lakes are rimmed with cliffs and riotous vegetation.

Genetic modifications in vegetation could bring forth a lot of biochemical alterations in our organism.

And grazing livestock can become infected after eating contaminated vegetation.

Rather, the land is lush with vegetation and covered with tall trees.

In warm months, when growth rates are high, an ecosystem with lots of vegetation may act as a greenhouse gas-trapping carbon sink.

Fungi too would have to be dispaced to ensure that vegetation can feed itself.

Highly aquatic, grebes can swim with only their heads above water, concealing themselves in low pond vegetation.

Sahara has been during last thousands- millions of years mostly covered by big lakes and dense vegetation.

When agriculture first started, people shifted their crops from site to site, giving vegetation a chance to recover.

The more salt there is, the less vegetation there is.

Some places are salt pans and have no vegetation at all.

Because this is a transitional zone, steppe vegetation and taiga vegetation are scattered throughout the ecoregion.

They saw the green stream of vegetation draining into the desert.

One theory is that the dark native vegetation absorbs and releases more heat into the atmosphere than the light-colored crops.

Lateritic pedestals formed by the erosion of soil from areas unprotected by rocks or vegetation.

The dry vegetation has taken fire in many places, and valuable timber tracts are threatened with.

The company allowed low-lying vegetation to grow under the lines.

Ecologists once thought that many small mammals stick to tried-and-true routes amid dense vegetation that provides good hiding.

Loopers are somewhat difficult to detect since they feed mainly at night and hide in older vegetation during the day.

The new vegetation was fed to the fish and the pigs.

When alarmed, they scatter in different directions, hiding behind clumps of vegetation.

When vegetation dies it sinks below the swamp's water, and as it decomposes, methane gas is produced.

They sometimes leave gathered vegetation in the sun to dry, presumably to.

Such erosion is determined by the amount of vegetation cover, and how dry the ground is.

After a period of time vegetation will grow back and the land is no longer such an eyesore.

The home is on a quarter-acre property with mature trees and indigenous vegetation.

She would expect to see similar changes in rain forest vegetation affected by future climate change, she added.

It can see things that are anomalous in the vegetation such as metal or something from an airplane wreckage".

Concentrated in the western and northern provinces, sheep and goats are destroying the land's protective vegetation.

The map shows the earth's vegetation zones in beautiful detail.

Refuge land and fire managers examined several options to reduce the buildup of vegetation and thereby reduce the risk of.

Eighty percent of the fantastic vegetation of that island is found nowhere else on earth.

Like other geese, these birds are chiefly grazers, feeding on stubble fields and eating marsh vegetation.

Small waves are constantly adjusting the shoreline, but trees and vegetation anchor the shoreline.

Wear patterns told them what sort of vegetation had prevailed.

Add this year's scorching drought and dry winds, and that vegetation became fuel.

Hydrogen is created through rotting vegetation or can even be produced from the water that the fuel cell itself produces.

So dead vegetation quickly turns into rotting vegetation.

Bombs that exploded left huge, barren craters in the earth, where vegetation no longer grows.

Lowell, only vegetation can account for their singular fluctuations.

Vegetation appears red, water is blue, and rock and soil can be anywhere from buff to black.

The vegetation is dispersed in more or less recognizable layers or strata.

Mudstones and siltstones are typically covered by vegetation and/or talus.

Beginning with the top, the canopy includes the bulk of the vegetation in tropical forests.

During the day, cottontails often remain hidden in vegetation.

Both vegetation and human form were rendered so literally as to become abstract, and poetic.

Forested plains have different types of trees, shrubs, and other vegetation.

Weeds and subtropical vegetation have grown around and inside the tower's red sections.

These have been weaned and also cannot find enough vegetation to sustain them.

The hills have flattened out and the vegetation is starting to look tropical and, frankly, a little scruffy.

The lakes dried up, the vegetation disappeared, and the people vanished.

Deer follow a bland leafy diet, preferring vegetation with smooth, succulent leaves.

And rapid industrial development has reduced forests and other vegetation that once provided moisture to the region.

But without actually shooting wolves, the only other way is vegetation control.

In this day and age, a simple solvent will suffice to turn homely vegetation into a source of precious metals.

It is not feasible to scan every square inch of forest, so the team only sweeps a sample area of different vegetation types.

Likewise, acid rain from sulfur dioxide pollution has destroyed much of the vegetation in the area.

Trees and other vegetation along the river have been cleared for agriculture, which causes soil erosion.

Water is black or dark blue where it is colored with mud, vegetation is bright green, and clouds are light blue and white.

Healthy peatlands absorb carbon dioxide as new vegetation grows, serving as a carbon sink.

On land, non-native plant species sometimes outcompete native vegetation and take over habitat.

Elephants also live in these forests and feed on vegetation in numerous openings and clearings.

It was feeding on the vegetation along the banks, almost completely exposed.

Eating the bitter vegetation alone gives the chimps no health benefit, researchers say.

The vegetation is sparse, and cattle and people dominate.

The farther north you travel on this long march, the more spotty the choice vegetation becomes.

The nocturnal animals spend their days curled up in tree holes or clumps of dense vegetation.

Remnants of the island's original vegetation serve as critical biodiversity hot spots.

They note that it causes widespread damage to surrounding trees and other vegetation.

Also found at the site were mosses and pollen from tundra vegetation that lived during the same period.

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World English Dictionary

vegetation (ˌvɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən)

—n
1.	plant life as a whole, esp the plant life of a particular region
2.	the process of vegetating
3.	pathol any abnormal growth, excrescence, etc
4.	a vegetative existence

vege'tational

—*adj*

vege'tatious

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

vegetation

1564, "act of vegetating," from M.Fr. végétation, from M.L. vegetationem (nom. vegetatio) "a quickening, action of growing," from vegetare "grow, quicken" (see vegetable). Meaning "plant life" first recorded 1727.

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Medical Dictionary

vegetation veg·e·ta·tion (věj'ĭ-tā'shən)
n.

The process of growth in plants.
An abnormal bodily growth or excrescence, especially a clot composed largely of fused blood platelets, fibrin, and sometimes bacteria that is adherent to a diseased heart valve.
A vegetative state of impaired consciousness.

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Science Dictionary

vegetation

(věj'ĭ-tā'shən) Pronunciation Key

The plants of an area or a region; plant life.
An abnormal bodily accretion, especially a clot composed largely of fused blood platelets, fibrin, and sometimes bacteria, that adheres to a diseased heart valve.

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"When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse."

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