Associations to the word «Vegetation»

Wiktionary

VEGETATION, noun. (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
VEGETATION, noun. (pathology) (countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
VEGETATION, noun. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
VEGETATION OF SALTS, noun. (chemistry) (obsolete) A crystalline growth of an arborescent form.

Dictionary definition

VEGETATION, noun. All the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China".
VEGETATION, noun. The process of growth in plants.
VEGETATION, noun. An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart).
VEGETATION, noun. Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope