Noun

(wikipedia vegetation)

(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.

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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.

Noun

(en noun)

(botany) Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.

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As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

* 1997 , Valentin A. Krassilov, Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects , page 134,

The notion of magnoliaceans as the most primitive living angiosperms , justified or not, does not mean that all their characters, including multilacunar nodal anatomy and the lack of tannins, are primary.

* 2009 , Xin Wang, 3: New Fossils and New Hope for the Origin of Angiosperms'', Pierre Pontarotti, ''Evolutionary Biology: Concept, Modeling, and Application , page 55,

With all these features, it is pretty easy for one to identify an angiosperm'. This is a very normal and common practice for neobotanists. However, the situation becomes complicated when you go back to the early history of ' angiosperms .