vegetation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun all the plant life in a particular region or period
    botany; flora.
    • Pleistocene vegetation
    • the flora of southern California
    • the botany of China
  2. noun the process of growth in plants
  3. noun an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
  4. noun inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
    • their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation

WordNet

Veg`e*ta"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.
Definitions
  1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
  2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
  3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.

Webster 1913