vegetation

Definition

Plants, taken collectively.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.

Example Sentences

• "There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest."
• "Thus the growth of vegetation, though effected in a greater or less degree by the strong wind, the violent rain, and the heat and glare of the noonday sun, is yet still more effectually promoted by the mild action of the gentler breezes, the softly descending dew, and the less intense heat."
• "As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; […]"