as in foliage
green leaves or plants the local vegetation is flourishing as a result of the recent rains

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Recent Examples of vegetation There had been talk of creating an endowment fund for ongoing maintenance and repairs, and Goodman said the club will revisit that idea when the vegetation is complete. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025 The below freezing temperatures could kill plants and vegetation and potentially burst pipes. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025 At first glance, the Great Pyramid of Cholula looks like something else entirely, since it’s covered in vegetation and topped with a 16th-century church built by the Spanish. John Newton, AFAR Media, 24 Jan. 2025 Los Angeles has received essentially no rainfall in over 10 months, with the driest start to a rainy season on record, parching soils and vegetation and setting the stage for extreme winds to intensify and spread the fires. Peter H. Gleick, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for vegetation 

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“Vegetation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vegetation. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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