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vegetation

ve juh tay shuhn

  • n  all the plant life in a particular region or period
    Pleistocene vegetation
  • n  the process of growth in plants
  • n  an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
  • n  inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
    their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation

  • No rain means no new vegetation to return to.
  • The community raised the money and worked for months spreading lime and planting vegetation on the blackened rock.
  • There was just one flaw in the calculation: the studies all credited fuel crops for sequestering carbon, but no one checked whether the crops would ultimately replace vegetation .
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  • Gábor Horváth in FOXNews
    This is far from a trivial question,said biophysicist Gabor Horvath at Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary. "The prevailing opinion is that forest fires can be sparked by intense sunlight focused by water drops on dried-out vegetation."
  • Malcolm Turnbull in CNNMoney.com
    Strict environmental protection measures will be required to protect Commonwealth environment matters, including listed threatened and migratory species and rare vegetation on Barrow Island,Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a...
  • Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson in Reuters
    Soil and vegetation are being lost at an alarming rate around the globe, which in turn has devastating effects on food production and accelerates climate change,Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson said in a statement.

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