Synonyms: vegetation
Definition: inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
Usage: their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation
Similar words: dormancy, sleeping, quiescence, quiescency
Definition: quiet and inactive restfulness
Synonyms: vegetation
Definition: an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
Similar words: excrescence
Definition: (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
Synonyms: botany, flora, vegetation
Definition: all the plant life in a particular region or period
Usage: Pleistocene vegetation; the flora of southern California; the botany of China
Similar words: aggregation, accumulation, assemblage, collection
Definition: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Synonyms: vegetation
Definition: the process of growth in plants
Similar words: growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development
Definition: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
Usage: he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children