名词

1. 植被;植物;草木
Plants, trees, and flowers can be referred to as vegetation .

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

e.g. their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation

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

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

e.g. Pleistocene vegetation
the flora of southern California
the botany of China

Synonym: florabotany

4. the process of growth in plants