vegetation

Other forms of vegetation

plural

vegetations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vegetation

What does vegetation mean?

vegetation means "all the plant life in a particular region or period". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vegetation?

vegetation has 4 syllables: veg-e-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌvɛdʒəˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for vegetation?

Close synonyms include flora, botany. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vegetation a common word?

vegetation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with vegetation?

89 words rhyme with vegetation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.