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vegetation

noun
/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.

  1. derived from vegetatio
  2. borrowed from végétation

Definitions

  1. Plants, taken collectively.

    • There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
    • As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; […]

  2. An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth

  3. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does

    The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at vegetation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at vegetation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at vegetation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA