vegetation

名词 vegetation:

1. all the plant life in a particular region or period
   同义词：flora, botany
2. the process of growth in plants
3. an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
4. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

1. There is luxuriant tropical vegetation in our country.
   我们国家有很多繁茂的热带植物。
2. The path leads to a hill bare of vegetation.
   这条小道通向一座没有草木的小山。
3. The colorful vegetation of this tropical forest amazed the professor.
   这片热带森林色彩纷呈的植被使教授惊讶。

veg.e.ta.tion

n.（名词）
The act or process of vegetating.
植物生长：植物的生长行为或过程
The plants of an area or a region; plant life:
植被：一个地区的植物；植被：
例句：
The vegetation is lush on the Hawaiian Islands.
夏威夷岛上的植被很葱翠

Pathology An abnormal growth on the body.
【病理学】 赘生物，赘疣：体内的病态生长

【引伸】
veg.eta.tional
adj.（形容词）