vegetation

noun

1. Plants, taken collectively.

   “There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.”

2. pathologyAn abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth

3. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

4. All the plant life in a particular region or period

   “Pleistocene vegetation”

   “the flora of southern California”

   “the botany of China”

   Similar: flora, botany

5. An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)body

6. Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

   “their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation”