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vegetation

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vegetation
1. plant life as a whole, esp the plant life of a particular region
2. the process of vegetating
3. Pathol any abnormal growth, excrescence, etc.

vegetation [‚vej·ə′tā·shən]
(botany)
The total mass of plant life that occupies a given area.


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Because, so to speak, there are no seasons on the moon's surface, and that, consequently, the phenomena of vegetation of which you speak cannot occur.
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
The island would generally be considered as very uninteresting, but to anyone accustomed only to an English landscape, the novel aspect of an utterly sterile land possesses a grandeur which more vegetation might spoil.
 
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