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

The leaves of plants.

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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage , and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

(lb) Fall foliage.

An architectural ornament representing foliage.