| 单词 | vegetation |
| 释义 | vegetation (once / 658 pages) n Use the word vegetation to refer to all plants and trees collectively, typically those in a specific region. The vegetation in your backyard might look very lush and green in the springtime, unless you forget to water it. Vegetation, as well as meaning all plant growth, can refer to the growth process of a plant. The lettuce you planted a couple weeks ago is at an early stage of vegetation. Vegetation can also apply to people — or at least to those in a state of inactivity. Think about how slowly plants grow. It’s the same for a person who’s in a state of vegetation. You may sometimes enjoy the mindless vegetation of doing nothing at all. WORD FAMILYvegetation: vegetational, vegetations+/vegetate: vegetated, vegetates, vegetating, vegetation, vegetative/vegetative: vegetatively USAGE EXAMPLESIn Braslavsky’s starker show in the Common Ground Gallery, the vegetation is all on paper. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Vegetation and a maze of dried mud walls lay to the west and southwest. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Officials say managing the number of deer is necessary for a healthy, diverse forest that supports native vegetation and wildlife. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1n the process of growth in plants Hyper development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level 2n all the plant life in a particular region or period Pleistocene vegetation Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper botany, flora fauna, zoology all the animal life in a particular region or period browse vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicketa dense growth of bushes growthvegetation that has grown bush, chaparral, scrubdense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes standa growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area forest, wood, woodsthe trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area shrubberya collection of shrubs growing together gardenthe flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden brier, brier patch, brierpatchtangled mass of prickly plants ground cover, groundcoverlow-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow brakean area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant canebrakea dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) spinneya copse that shelters game boska small wooded area grovea small growth of trees without underbrush junglean impenetrable equatorial forest rain forest, rainforesta forest with heavy annual rainfall underbrush, undergrowth, underwoodthe brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest Hernaria glabra, rupturewortcommon prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures whitlowwortany of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) pearl-weed, pearlweed, pearlwortany of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls Helxine soleirolia, Soleirolia soleirolii, baby tears, baby's tearsprostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves old growth, virgin forestforest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity second growtha second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 3n inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation Hyper dormancy, quiescence, quiescency, sleeping quiet and inactive restfulness 4n an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) Hyper excrescence (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body |
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