Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics.

What do the word vegetation mean?

1 : plant life or total plant cover (as of an area) 2 : the act or process of vegetating. 3 : inert existence. 4 : an abnormal growth upon a body part fibrin vegetations on the mitral valve.

What is vegetation and example?

Vegetation is defined as growing plants, or a life without physical, mental or social activity. All the plants in the rain forest are an example of vegetation. A person who is brain dead is an example of someone who lives in a state of vegetation. noun. 19.