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vegetation

noun as in plant life

noun as in plants

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In response, SDG&E pointed to its own data showing that when it clears trees beyond the state minimum, its equipment had fewer contact with vegetation and a drop in fires.

It pointed to its own data showing that when it clears trees beyond the state minimum, its equipment had fewer contact with vegetation and a drop in fires.

Fuel modification in this context means that flammable vegetation will be thinned and managed in such a way that it will disrupt a fire’s spread.

Rilling said the easements are not necessary for the fuel modification zone, or the management of combustible vegetation.

From buried traces of vegetation, the scientists reconstructed what the climate must have been like back then.

Hippopotamuses eat aquatic vegetation, like water hyacinths—loads of it, Irwin learned.

They are searching for abnormalities in the soil, replanted vegetation and other signs of a rogue grave.

The path for our group of six is being carved through tangles of vines and vegetation one machete hack at a time.

Women would first bathe their feet in a mixture of vinegar and natural vegetation.

Adam tended to the garden and he and Eve ate locally sourced, organically grown vegetation.

The particular phenomena of vegetation also afford abundant evidence that humus cannot be the only source of carbon.

In the Brazils a conflagration of this kind never extends very far, as the vegetation is too green and offers too much opposition.

The immediate effect of lime on the vegetation of the land to which it is applied is very striking.

Here and there they distinguished red cliffs, and some signs of a scanty and burnt up vegetation.

It is impossible to conceive any thing richer than the vegetation down to the very water's edge around the lake.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vegetation, such as: flora, greenery, crops, flowers, grasses, and herbage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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