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vegetation

Plant life of a particular area, such as shrubs, trees, and grasses. The type of vegetation depends on the soil, which may become impoverished by deforestation; climate, especially the amount of moisture available and the possibility of frost, since these factors influence the types of vegetation that can survive; and human activity, such as overgrazing or the destruction of grasslands.
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Because, so to speak, there are no seasons on the moon's surface, and that, consequently, the phenomena of vegetation of which you speak cannot occur.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The island would generally be considered as very uninteresting, but to anyone accustomed only to an English landscape, the novel aspect of an utterly sterile land possesses a grandeur which more vegetation might spoil.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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