Noun
- 1. vegetation, flora, botany, collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
- usage: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
- 2. botany, phytology, biology, biological science
- usage: the branch of biology that studies plants
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