Vegetation - Definition
vegetation
n 1: all the plant life in a particular region or period;
"Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern
California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation,
flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology]
2: the process of growth in plants
3: an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty
excrescence on the valves of the heart)
4: inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the
inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep
and vegetation"