名詞 vegetation:

1. all the plant life in a particular region or period
   同義詞：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.
   我們國家有很多繁茂的熱帶植物。
2. The path leads to a hill bare of vegetation.
   這條小道通向一座沒有草木的小山。
3. The colorful vegetation of this tropical forest amazed the professor.
   這片熱帶森林色彩紛呈的植被使教授驚訝。

veg.e.ta.tion

n.（名詞）
The act or process of vegetating.
植物生長：植物的生長行為或過程
The plants of an area or a region; plant life:
植被：一個地區(qū)的植物；植被：
例句：
The vegetation is lush on the Hawaiian Islands.
夏威夷島上的植被很蔥翠

Pathology An abnormal growth on the body.
【病理學(xué)】 贅生物，贅疣：體內(nèi)的病態(tài)生長

【引伸】
veg.eta.tional
adj.（形容詞）