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

Matched Categories

1. • Excrescence
   • Growth
   • Quiescence

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

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. Tracey Curtis-Taylor:

   I need a drink, seeing all the most iconic landscapes, geology, vegetation, just the best view in the world.

2. Claudia Rodriguez:

   When cities grow, we're removing forests, we're removing the vegetation that hummingbirds use to feed, to reproduce.

3. Paul Hetherington:

   The vast majority of slugs and snails feed on dead or rotting vegetation so I wouldn't call them the gardener's pest, they get a bad press.

4. Philip Muruthi:

   Hippos are important ecosystem engineers of the ecology of freshwater areas they inhabit. This is through nutrient recycling from dung (they consume large amounts of vegetation), hippos attack not to eat people, but to get them the hell away from them.

5. Scott Maclean:

   The winds are really erratic, there's just no moisture in the vegetation, it is still so dry regardless of what rains we've had.

How to pronounce vegetation?

How to say vegetation in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency