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 greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also : the vegetation itself.

* 1610 , , by Shakespeare

[...] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.

* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142

The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.

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To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.

(hence) A condition of health and vigour.