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The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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  1. n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
  2. n. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
  3. n. An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
  4. n. all the plant life in a particular region or period
  5. n. the process of growth in plants
  6. n. an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
  7. n. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
  8. 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. 2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. 3. (Med.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.
  9. An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially uponthe valves of the heart. Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), acrystalline growth of an arborescent form.
  10. n:100 n. all the plant life in a particular region or period n. the process of growth in plants n. an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) n. inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life