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Vegetation vs Algae - What's the difference?

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Vegetation is a related term of algae.


As nouns the difference between vegetation and algae

is that vegetation is vegetation while algae is (alga).

vegetation

English

Noun

(wikipedia vegetation)
  • (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
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  • , author=Audrey Garric , title=Urban canopies let nature bloom , volume=188, issue=22, page=30 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.}}
    There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
  • (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
  • The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
  • algae

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (alga)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    alga

    English

    (wikipedia alga)

    Noun

    (algae)
  • (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds.
  • Usage notes

    * (term) is a non-standard plural.

    Hyponyms

    * seaweed