Synonyms for vegetation

Synonyms for (noun) vegetation

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


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