vegetationaladj.

1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India 505 Pinus longifolia,..Vegetational Limit, from 5000 to 8000 feet above the level of the sea.

1896 Pop. Astron. Dec. 292 The change in the look of the planet was..a question solely of the Martian time of year, that is a vegetational seasonal affair.

1927 Observer 20 Nov. 21/3 The vegetational phenomena shown by the photographs giving valuable information about the geology of the country.

1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants iv. 95 The buried seed population of mature or climax communities generally contains a living..record of the past vegetational history of the succession.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) ix. 283 The clues used by paleobotanists to reconstruct the vegetational history of the highlands have been basically similar to those I already discussed.

1912 Plant World 15 197 Vegetationally the island belongs within the Northeastern Conifer Forest Region.

1975 Nature 27 Mar. 301/2 The past environments, corresponding to these assemblages, as a group fall distinctly into the vegetationally more ‘open’ part of the spectrum of known habitats.

2004 G. A. Hammerson Connecticut Wildlife vi. 77/2 Large, vegetationally heterogeneous swamps tend to have the largest number of bird species.