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Recent Examples of vegetation
The Amazon covers nearly 7 million square kilometers and contains approximately a fifth of all the carbon captured by vegetation across the planet.
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Sarah Sax, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025
Since last summer, Nancy Zadrozny, landscape open space manager for the Estates Association, and a crew of four landscape maintenance workers and additional subcontractors have been clearing overgrown vegetation from the Estates open space.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
The courtyard installation was curated by the renowned international studio Mary Lennox, who created walls of greenery in hyper-realistic volumes where small openings in the lush vegetation house unique and surprising ceramic pieces.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2025
The turtles are placed in mud near the Indiana Dunes sign in front of the visitor center now, but the mud will be supplanted with vegetation when the weather is right.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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Sarah Sax, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025
Since last summer, Nancy Zadrozny, landscape open space manager for the Estates Association, and a crew of four landscape maintenance workers and additional subcontractors have been clearing overgrown vegetation from the Estates open space.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
The courtyard installation was curated by the renowned international studio Mary Lennox, who created walls of greenery in hyper-realistic volumes where small openings in the lush vegetation house unique and surprising ceramic pieces.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2025
The turtles are placed in mud near the Indiana Dunes sign in front of the visitor center now, but the mud will be supplanted with vegetation when the weather is right.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vegetation
Noun
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Most of these organisms do not affect your plants until the foliage begins to decline.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Apr. 2025
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As for the small terraces that had once filled the other two sides, these had long since disappeared under the ever-expanding foliage.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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To be the first to map the flora of the Grand Canyon.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The juxtaposition of industrial concrete and verdant flora adds a wow factor to a front yard.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Vegetation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vegetation. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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