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vegetation
CIDE DICTIONARY
vegetation, n. [Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.].
- The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. [1913 Webster]
- The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. [1913 Webster]
- An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
vegetation, n.
1 plants collectively; plant life (luxuriant vegetation; no sign of vegetation).
2 the process of vegetating.
1 plants collectively; plant life (luxuriant vegetation; no sign of vegetation).
2 the process of vegetating.
Derivative
vegetational adj.
Etymology
med.L vegetatio growth (as VEGETATE)
THESAURUS
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 waitingROGET THESAURUS
vegetation
Insensibility
N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.Vegetability^
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