Related Searches
Nearby Words
Animal Underworld animals.nationalgeographic.com/ Discover Bizarre Animal Practices From Around the World. May 28 at 8P
Thesaurus.com Free Toolbar Dictionary.com Look Up Vegetation Instantly. Faster Page Loads With Fewer Ads.
Ads
| Main Entry: |
vegetation
 [vej-i-tey-shuhn] 
|
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plant life |
| Synonyms: | crops, flora, flowers, grasses, greenery, herbage, herbs, plants, saplings, shrubs, trees, vegetables, verdure |
| Main Entry: | foliage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaves |
| Synonyms: | frondescence, greenness, growth, herbage, leafage, umbrage, vegetation, verdure |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, aggrandizement, augmentation, beefing up, boost, buildup, crop, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, expansion, extension, fleshing out, flowering, gain, germination, heightening, hike, improvement, increase, maturation, maturing, multiplication, produce, production, proliferation, prosperity, rise, sprouting, stretching, success, surge, swell, thickening, unfolding, up, upping, vegetation, waxing, widening |
| Antonyms: | abatement, decrease, diminishment, failure, lessening, reduction, stagnation, underdevelopment |
Example Sentences
- Forested plains have different types of trees, shrubs, and other vegetation.
- On land, non-native plant species sometimes outcompete native vegetation and take over habitat.
- They disrupt native vegetation and make it easier for invasive plants to take hold.
| Main Entry: | flora |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vegetable life |
| Synonyms: | plants, vegetation, verdure |
| Main Entry: | vegetable kingdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plant life |
| Synonyms: | botany, flora, flowerage, green plants, greenery, herbage, plant kingdom, plants, vegetable life, vegetation, verdure |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
| Main Entry: | flora |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
ananthous, apocynaceous, arborary, arborescent, arboretum, avenaceous, biform, broad, cauline, ceduous, cepaceous, cespitose, crinoid, dasyphyllous, deciduous, dendroid, effloriate, emarcid, everbearing, floral, floriferous, floriform, foliaceous, fucoid, gemmiform, grassy, hardy, hederaceous, hempen, herbaceous, hordeaceous, inflorescent, inrooted, juglandaceous, lichen, ligneous, menthaceous, monoecious, mossy, musaceous, nuciferous, ombrophobous, orchidaceous, orchideous, organic, papaverous, pecky, phytoform, quercine, ramiferous, remontant, root, sempervirent, serotine, serotinous, stag, topiary, unifoliate, variegated, vegetable, vegetal, vegetous, verdant, verdurous, vimineous, woody
|
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
