Vegetation

(noun.) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; 'their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation'.

(noun.) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart).

(noun.) all the plant life in a particular region or period; 'Pleistocene vegetation'; 'the flora of southern California'; 'the botany of China'.

(noun.) the process of growth in plants.

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• It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We may infer from the frozen mammals and nature of the mountain vegetation, that Siberia was similarly affected. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• However, he early began his collection of minerals and observed the relation of the soil and the vegetation to the underlying ro cks. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Little islands rose here and there to support the strange and colourless vegetation of this strange world. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The ice was receding, vegetation was increasing, big game of all sorts was becoming more abundant. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We saw no ploughed fields, very few villages, no trees or grass or vegetation of any kind, scarcely, and hardly ever an isolated house. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He loved now the soft, delicate vegetation, that was so cool and perfect. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The quick-growing vegetation has filled the estradas and this must be cleared away and perhaps new estradas opened. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• His chief work was the making known widely of the beneficial effects of ammonia and ammoniacal compounds on vegetation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Half a million years ahead it may be a winterless world with trees and vegetation even in the polar circles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Amidst this spreading vegetation of the lower plains the reptiles were increasing mightily in multitude and variety. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The heaven being spread with this pallid screen and the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He could love the vegetation and be quite happy and unquestioned, by himself. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Vegetation has made great advances in the art of living out of water. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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