Antonyms for vegetation
ˌvɛdʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃənveg·e·ta·tion

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1. • Excrescence
   • Growth
   • Quiescence

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1. vegetation, flora, botanynoun

   all the plant life in a particular region or period

   "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"

   Synonyms:
   phytology, plant life, botany, flora, plant

2. vegetationnoun

   the process of growth in plants

   Synonyms:
   botany, flora

3. vegetationnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   botany, flora

4. vegetationnoun

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

   "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"

   Synonyms:
   botany, flora

How to use vegetation in a sentence?

1. Aidan Jacobson:

   It was basically a blur, brad Gobright screamed. I screamed. I went through some vegetation, and then all I remember is seeing Brad Gobright blue Gramicci shirt bounce over the edge.

2. Andrew Farke:

   It was probably like what you see on birds today, you have a really sharp beak for cropping off vegetation.

3. Daniel Swain:

   And that's the main climate change connection -- the effect that the warming and drying is having on the vegetation aridity itself, in most cases, the drier vegetation becomes, the more flammable it becomes. In some cases, it's an exponential relationship where each additional increment of drying makes it increasingly more flammable at an increasing rate.

4. Daniel Swain:

   That couple of degrees of [ average ] warming over decades... you don't notice it as much, but it's still there lurking in the background, sucking extra moisture out of the vegetation and the soil.

5. Yucheng Wang:

   When the climate got wetter and the ice began to melt, it led to the formation of lakes, rivers, and marshes. The ecosystem changed and the biomass of the vegetation reduced and would not have been able to sustain the herds of mammoths, we have shown that climate change, specifically precipitation, directly drives the change in the vegetation -- humans had no impact on them at all based on our models.

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