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Vegetation vs Canopy - What's the difference?

vegetation | canopy |

As nouns the difference between vegetation and canopy

is that vegetation is vegetation while canopy is a high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.

As a verb canopy is

to cover with or as if with a canopy.

vegetation

English

Noun

(wikipedia vegetation)
  • (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10
  • , 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.
  • canopy

    English

    Noun

    (canopies)
  • A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
  • * Dryden
  • golden canopies and beds of state
  • Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
  • The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
  • In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
  • In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To cover with or as if with a canopy.
  • * Milton
  • A bank with ivy canopied .
  • To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
  • See also

    * canopied * canopy bed English eponyms