vegetation

Noun

• inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
  • their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation
    

• an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)

• the process of growth in plants

• all the plant life in a particular region or period
  • Pleistocene vegetation
    
  • the flora of southern California
    
  • the botany of China
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  flora , botany
• Antonyms: 
  fauna , zoology