Vegetation
[vedʒɪ'teɪʃ(ə)n] or ['vɛdʒə'teʃən]
解釋/意思:
(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.
乔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
(n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
(n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
埃米尔編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Vegetable growth.[2]. Plants, vegetables.
編輯:娜塔莎
例句/造句/用法:
- It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We may infer from the frozen mammals and nature of the mountain vegetation, that Siberia was similarly affected. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- However, he early began his collection of minerals and observed the relation of the soil and the vegetation to the underlying ro cks. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Little islands rose here and there to support the strange and colourless vegetation of this strange world. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The ice was receding, vegetation was increasing, big game of all sorts was becoming more abundant. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We saw no ploughed fields, very few villages, no trees or grass or vegetation of any kind, scarcely, and hardly ever an isolated house. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He loved now the soft, delicate vegetation, that was so cool and perfect. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The quick-growing vegetation has filled the estradas and this must be cleared away and perhaps new estradas opened. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- Half a million years ahead it may be a winterless world with trees and vegetation even in the polar circles. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. 愛德格·賴斯·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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The heaven being spread with this pallid screen and the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He could love the vegetation and be quite happy and unquestioned, by himself. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Vegetation has made great advances in the art of living out of water. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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