Synonym: flora, growth. Similar words: vegetative, interpretation, vegetable, mutation, gestation, denotation, stationery, agitation. Meaning: [‚vedʒɪ'teɪʃn] n. 1. all the plant life in a particular region or period 2. the process of growth in plants 3. an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) 4. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life.
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61. They often represent the last vestiges of the ancient practice of hacking back the vegetation along well-used tracks.
62. The vegetation within, protected from the dry air, begins to decay and the mound starts to warm.
63. The gun lapped up snow and vegetation with a blow-torch thirty feet long.
64. The island became covered with vegetation,[www.Sentencedict.com] fossils of which are sometimes found in the volcanic ashes.
65. The vegetation consists of coastal sage scrub, chaparral and groves of Englemann oak and live oak.
66. It was an enormous step for man to cease to be reliant on vegetation, and to add meat to his diet.
67. Crop yields will improve dramatically as vegetation thrives on an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide.
68. Pockets of live vegetation dot the otherwise black-and-white landscape, places randomly spared by arbitrary shifts of wind and fire.
69. Higher up the vegetation thinned out, but the climb was so steep I didn't care to look down.
70. Most of the island was cleared for phosphates, leaving it devoid of vegetation.
71. At the beginning of the season, when the vegetation within is actively fermenting, it may overheat.
72. There is sun, heavy silence, a pervasive scent of parched vegetation, a lizard materialized on a rock.
73. The vegetation had a dank and wintry look to it still, quite different from the lowlands.
74. Derek stumbled off into the nearest clump of vegetation and disturbed three petrified rabbits.
75. This is especially true of open reservoirs, less so on established pits or lakes where bankside vegetation restricts movement.
76. Table 1 shows the losses of different semi-natural vegetation types summed for the 12 parishes.
77. Trampling of vegetation is one of the most widespread environmentally degrading repercussions of recreation and can also lead to excessive soil erosion.
78. The actual vegetation may not be identical owing to varying local conditions but there is sufficient affinity to make correlations reasonably certain.
79. On the low ground nearby where the vegetation cover was extensive, birds were also plentiful.
80. Feel the moisture in the air from the lush, green vegetation.
81. The most sophisticated farmers are the leaf-cutting ants, which cultivate fungus on fresh vegetation thanks to an assembly-line of specialised castes.
82. While ploughs are clearing land, expanding livestock populations are denuding the land of vegetation.
83. This may require the complete removal of the vegetation or trees.
84. The forecast is not entirely gloomy. Crop yields will improve dramatically as vegetation thrives on an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide.
85. Inland and coastal fresh and brackish waters and marshes in lowlands, especially with plenty of vegetation and shallow muddy water.
86. Firefighters could not get near the blaze because of the dense vegetation.
87. This is particularly true in areas of dense vegetation such as tropical rainforest.
88. Ripping out deep-rooted forest vegetation and planting shallow-rooted crops is causing groundwater to rise to the surface.
89. Vegetation indirectly created the protective ozone shield by pumping oxygen into the atmosphere.
90. These attractive tetras make a good, peaceful community fish if the aquarium has dense vegetation with open water for swimming.
More similar words: vegetative, interpretation, vegetable, mutation, gestation, denotation, stationery, agitation, annotation, retaliation, habitation, connotation, invitation, stationary, limitation, levitation, expectation, orientation, delectation, nation-state, affectation, dissertation, consultation, presentation, exploitation, deforestation, argumentation, confrontation, precipitation, transportation.