vegetation
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
all the plant life in a particular region or period
Pleistocene vegetation
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- biota member holonym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the process of growth in plants
Types & categories
- growth hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
Types & categories
- excrescence hypernym
Related & opposite
- vegetate derivation
Sense 4 noun
inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation
Types & categories
- sleeping hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | fauna |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | vegetate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | vegetal |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | plant life |
| 1 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | mown |
| 1 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | unmown |
| 1 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | sprouted |
| 1 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | sear |
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | biota |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | collection |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | browse |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | brush |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | growth |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | scrub |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stand |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | forest |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shrubbery |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | garden |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | brier |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | groundcover |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vegetate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vegetate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | growth |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | vegetate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | excrescence |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | vege out |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | vegetate |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | sleeping |