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vegetation 音标拼音: [v ,ɛdʒət'eʃən] n. 植物 植物 vegetation n 1: all the plant life in a particular region or period; " Pleistocene vegetation"; " the flora of southern California"; " the botany of China" [ synonym: { vegetation}, { flora}, { botany}] [ ant: { fauna}, { zoology}] 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; " their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation" Vegetation \ Veg` e* ta" tion\, n. [ Cf. F. v[' e] g[' e] tation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See { Vegetable}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. [ 1913 Webster] { Vegetation of salts} ( Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form. [ 1913 Webster] 91 Moby Thesaurus words for " vegetation": a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, botany, budding, burgeoning, catalepsy, catatonia, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, development, do- nothing policy, do- nothingism, do- nothingness, dormancy, entropy, excrescence, flora, flowerage, gemmation, germination, greenery, greens, growth, herbage, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, just being, laissez- aller, laissez- faire, laissez- faireism, languor, latency, lotus- eating, luxuriation, maturation, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, outgrowth, overgrowth, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self- annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, policy, procrastination, procreation, pullulation, quiescence, quietism, reproduction, sloth, sprouting, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, torpor, upgrowth, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation spirit, verdure, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting
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