Synonyms of the word

vegetation

• n. (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
• n. (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth.
• n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

accumulation

• n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
• n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
• n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
• n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
• n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
• n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

aggregation

• n. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
• n. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
• n. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
• n. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
• n. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
• n. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

assemblage

• n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
• n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
• n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

botany

• n. (uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve…
• n. The plant life of a geographical area.
• n. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
• n. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular…

collection

• n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• n. The activity of collecting.
• n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
• n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

development

• n. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
• n. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is…
• n. (countable) Something which has developed.
• n. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real…
• n. (real estate, uncountable) The building of a real estate development.
• n. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
• n. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
• n. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.

dormancy

• n. The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.

excrescence

• n. something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
• n. a disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
• n. (phonetics) epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or…

flora

• n. plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. a book describing the plants of a country etc.
• n. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora.

growing

• v. present participle of grow.
• n. growth; increase.
• n. (attributive) Connected with growing.
• adj. That grows.

growth

• n. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
• n. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
• n. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
• n. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

maturation

• n. The process of becoming mature.
• n. (biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.

ontogenesis

• n. the arising or development of an individual organism.

ontogeny

• n. The development of an individual organism.

quiescence

• n. The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
• n. Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
• n. The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a…
• n. (microbiology) The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
• n. (entomology) In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse…

quiescency

• n. Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.

sleeping

• v. present participle of sleep.
• adj. Asleep.
• adj. Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
• n. The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.