Main entry: vegetation
Definition: inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
Usage: their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation
Main entry: vegetation
Definition: an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
Main entry: 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
Main entry: vegetation
Definition: the process of growth in plants