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vegetation
What does vegetation mean?
vegetation (noun): plants, taken collectively.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use vegetation in a sentence?
- There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce vegetation?
/ˌvɛdʒəˈteɪʃən/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does vegetation come from?
Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “vegetation” mean?
concentration of attention
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a separate part of a whole
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the upper part of anything
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plants, taken collectively
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