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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Vegetation

/vĕjˌ-ət-āsh'-ən/ · Veg·e·ta·tion · IPA /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/
01 n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
  1. 1.
    The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
  2. 2.
    The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
  3. 3.
    An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.(Med.)
Phrases & compounds
Vegetation of salts — a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.