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vegetation

UK/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/US/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,127 of 15,258leans written

Vegetation is all the plant life covering an area, taken together. Dense vegetation, clear the vegetation, low vegetation.

It is a collective word and has no plural in this sense — you describe vegetation as dense, low or scrubby rather than counting it. Ecologists map vegetation to identify a habitat, because what grows says more about a place than any single species does.

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Definitions of vegetation

  1. 1nounvegetationAll the plant life covering an area, taken together.C1

    “The hills were covered in thick vegetation, with trees and bushes everywhere.”

vegetation is plant life.

Where it comes from

Medieval Latin vegetatio meant growth, from vegetare, to enliven, from vegetus, lively.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *weǵ-

  2. Medieval Latin

    vegetatio

  3. Middle French

    végétation

  4. English, today

    vegetation

Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetatio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Nature & Weather

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vegetation in the wild

  • A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates.

    Jungle

  • Cape Flats Dune Strandveld is an endangered vegetation type.

    Cape Flats Dune Strandveld

  • Atlantis Sand Fynbos is a critically endangered fynbos vegetation type that occurs to the north of Cape Town, in the Western Cape, South Africa.

    Atlantis Sand Fynbos

  • Cape Flats Sand Fynbos (CFSF), previously known as Sand Plain Fynbos, is a critically endangered vegetation type that occurs only within the city of Cape Town.

    Cape Flats Sand Fynbos

  • Swartland Alluvium Fynbos is a critically endangered vegetation type that occurs on the high plains and mountains in the far south-west of the Western Cape, South Africa.

    Swartland Alluvium Fynbos

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