Vegetation
Vegetation , noun
[Compare French végétation, Latin vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.]
1.
The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
2.
The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
3.
(Medicine) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
Collocations (1)
Vegetation of salts (Old Chemistry) , a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.