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Definition of Vegetation
Vegetation

The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.

An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.

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Vegetation Quotations

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
Ellsworth Huntington

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Jessamyn West

Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy

Vegetation Translations

vegetation in Dutch is plant, gewas

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