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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Excrescence
   • Growth
   • Quiescence

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. vegetationnoun

   Synonyms:
   vegetable growth

2. vegetationnoun

   Synonyms:
   plants, vegetables

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1. List of paraphrases for "vegetation":

   plant, wildland, vegetative, plants, vegetable, revegetation, flora

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1. Jonathan Bloch:

   Panama represents the southernmost extreme of the North American continent at that time, it may have swum across, but this would have required covering a distance of more than 100 miles, a difficult feat for sure. It's more likely that it unintentionally rafted across on mats of vegetation.

2. Lawrence Kileo:

   When the forest is logged or burned, not only does carbon absorption stop but the carbon stored in trees and other vegetation is released into the atmosphere, increasing the amount of climate-changing gases.

3. Joe Hessel:

   This fire is going to continue to grow -- the extremely dry vegetation and weather are not in our favor.

4. 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.

5. Diana Francis:

   There is really something to be done about increasing the water supply for these areas [ in Iraq ], another thing to try is planting some vegetation to reduce these bare areas that are exposed to high winds.