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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˌvɛdʒɪˈteɪʃ^ən/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˌvɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(vej′i tā′shən)

veg•e•ta•tion /ˌvɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]

Botanythe plants or plant life of a place.

veg•e•ta•tion (vej′i tā′shən),USA pronunciation n.

Botanyall 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.
Pathologya morbid growth, or excrescence.

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

veg′e•ta′tion•al, adj.
veg′e•ta′tion•less, adj.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

vegetation /ˌvɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən/ n

plant life as a whole, esp the plant life of a particular region
the process of vegetating
any abnormal growth, excrescence, etc
a vegetative existence

ˌvegeˈtational adj ˌvegeˈtatious adj

'vegetation' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

bog - browse - bushland - bushveld - carbon sink - coal - compost - crop - desert - Dionysus - fairy ring - fireweed - fynbos - geography - graze - grazing - greenery - green roof - gross - heath - herbage - jungle - Kano - lignite - locust - lush - maquis - megapode - mow - muskeg - phyto- - quadrat - rainforest - rambler - salting - Saturn - scalp - scrub - scrubby - scrubland - scum - semiarid - sloth - tussock - verdant - verdure - wanton - wrack - ameba - black frost

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Synonyms: plants, plant growth, flora, more...

🗣️Forum discussions with the word(s) "vegetation" in the title:

Bulrushes amongst the vegetation in the lagoon-banks.
buried eggs with vegetation
cover in vegetation
Culture burns happened to enable people to move through dense vegetation
dense vegetation?
formal tropical vegetation
Green: to talk about places with a lot of vegetation
industrial processes. (Such organic compounds can also originate from vegetation.)
lavish vegetation (use of article and preposition)
prohibiting development of local vegetation
Rural areas contain a large amount of vegetation.
scattered surface fires that resulf kill off more vegetation
There is not much vegetation//many plants
they found that each species was living on a different part of the vegetation.
To live as vegetation
vegetation 'ripe for' burning
vegetation cover, <such that> edible plants
Vegetation on mountain

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