vegetation

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.

1. Plants, taken collectively.

   “There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.”

   “Thus the growth of vegetation, though effected in a greater or less degree by the strong wind, the violent rain, and the heat and glare of the noonday sun, is yet still more effectually promoted by the mild action of the gentler breezes, the softly descending dew, and the less intense heat.”

2. An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
3. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.