Vegetation vs Canopy - What's the difference?
vegetation | canopy |
(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
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, title=Urban canopies let nature bloom
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(pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
* Dryden
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.
To cover with or as if with a canopy.
* Milton
To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
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)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.
canopy
English
Noun
(canopies)- golden canopies and beds of state
Verb
(en-verb)- A bank with ivy canopied .