noun. The plants of an area or a region; plant life.

noun. The act or process of vegetating.

noun. An abnormal growth on a body part.

noun. In phytogeography, the sum total, or a local aggregate, of plant individuals, often of many species, viewed with reference to their ecological adjustment to each other and to all the efficient factors of their environment: contrasted with flora, which denotes a scheme of species rather than a sum of individuals.

noun. The act or process of vegetating; the process of growing exhibited by plants.

noun. Plants collectively: as, luxuriant vegetation.

noun. In pathology, an excrescence or growth on any surface of the body.

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

noun. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general.

noun. An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.

noun. a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.

noun. Plants, taken collectively.

noun. An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth

noun. all the plant life in a particular region or period

noun. an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)

noun. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

noun. the process of growth in plants

"Hence genus and species stand in subaltern relation, and whatever is true of the genus is true of the species: If _All animal life is dependent on vegetation, All human life is dependent on vegetation_."

saline vegetation  vegetation of salts  

development  dormancy  excrescence  growing  growth  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

blossom  brush  flora  foliage  grass  

a wise passiveness  abeyance  apathy  botany  budding