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vegetation

/vej-i-tey-shuhn/US // ˌvɛdʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌvɛdʒɪˈteɪʃən) //

植被

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
    • : the act or process of vegetating.
    • : a dull existence; life devoid of mental or social activity.
    • : Pathology. a morbid growth, or excrescence.

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Examples

  • In response, SDG&E pointed to its own data showing that when it clears trees beyond the state minimum, its equipment had fewer contact with vegetation and a drop in fires.

  • It pointed to its own data showing that when it clears trees beyond the state minimum, its equipment had fewer contact with vegetation and a drop in fires.

  • Fuel modification in this context means that flammable vegetation will be thinned and managed in such a way that it will disrupt a fire’s spread.

  • Rilling said the easements are not necessary for the fuel modification zone, or the management of combustible vegetation.

  • From buried traces of vegetation, the scientists reconstructed what the climate must have been like back then.

  • Hippopotamuses eat aquatic vegetation, like water hyacinths—loads of it, Irwin learned.

  • They are searching for abnormalities in the soil, replanted vegetation and other signs of a rogue grave.

  • The path for our group of six is being carved through tangles of vines and vegetation one machete hack at a time.

  • Women would first bathe their feet in a mixture of vinegar and natural vegetation.

  • Adam tended to the garden and he and Eve ate locally sourced, organically grown vegetation.

  • The particular phenomena of vegetation also afford abundant evidence that humus cannot be the only source of carbon.

  • In the Brazils a conflagration of this kind never extends very far, as the vegetation is too green and offers too much opposition.

  • The immediate effect of lime on the vegetation of the land to which it is applied is very striking.

  • Here and there they distinguished red cliffs, and some signs of a scanty and burnt up vegetation.

  • It is impossible to conceive any thing richer than the vegetation down to the very water's edge around the lake.