vegetation
gb/vˌɛd͡ʒətˈeɪʃən/ us/vˌɛd͡ʒətˈeɪʃən/
B1
อังกฤษ
~ 8900
ความหมาย
0 ความหมาย
คำนาม
B1
entity
1
all plants in an area
All the plants in a place, seen together as one group.
รูปแบบการใช้:
vegetation in [a place]
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners sometimes confuse "vegetation" with "vegetables". "Vegetation" means plants in general in a place, not food on your plate. Also, "vegetation" is almost always uncountable in this sense: say "a lot of vegetation" or "thick vegetation", not "many vegetations".
คำพ้องความหมาย
plant life (Very close in meaning and register; slightly more informal and more often used in everyday explanations.)
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flora (More technical or formal; often used in scientific or written descriptions of the plants of a region.)
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greenery (More informal and visual; often suggests pleasant, green plants rather than a neutral or scientific view.)
คำตรงข้าม
bare ground (Describes land without any plant cover, the opposite of land covered in vegetation.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
dense vegetation
|lush vegetation
|tropical vegetation
|thick vegetation
|sparse vegetation
|clear the vegetation
หัวข้อ
nature
|environment
|geography
|science
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- Thick vegetation along the riverbank makes it difficult to see the water from the road.
- The island’s tropical vegetation includes palm trees, ferns, and brightly colored flowers.
- Scientists are studying how climate change is affecting vegetation in the Arctic.
- Much of the native vegetation was removed to make room for new housing developments.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- There is a lot of green vegetation around the lake.
- The desert has very little vegetation because there is not much rain.
- We walked through dense vegetation in the forest.
- The fire destroyed most of the vegetation on the hill.
คำนาม
literary
C1
state
2
dull, passive way of living
A very quiet and boring life with almost no change or activity.
รูปแบบการใช้:
live in (a state of) vegetation
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
This sense is rare and rather literary. Learners might try to use "vegetation" for "a boring life" in normal speech, but this sounds old-fashioned or strange. In everyday English, it is better to say "a boring life", "a quiet life", or "a life with no change".
คำพ้องความหมาย
idleness (Focuses more on not working or doing things, while "vegetation" adds a sense of long-term dullness and lack of change.)
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stagnation (Emphasizes lack of progress or development; similar idea but more common and not metaphorically linked to plants.)
คำตรงข้าม
active life (Describes a busy, varied lifestyle, which contrasts with a slow, unchanging life of vegetation.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
a life of vegetation
|years of vegetation
|mere vegetation
หัวข้อ
lifestyle
|emotions
|daily_life
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- He feared spending his retirement in quiet vegetation, doing nothing but watching television.
- After years of social and cultural vegetation, the town finally began to change.
- She refused to sink into mere vegetation and signed up for night classes instead.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- He did not want a life of slow vegetation in a small town.
- She felt her days were turning into quiet vegetation with nothing new.
- After many years of social vegetation, he decided to travel and meet new people.
คำนาม
technical
C2
entity
3
abnormal tissue growths (medical)
In medical language, a small mass of abnormal tissue, for example on a heart valve, often caused by disease.
รูปแบบการใช้:
vegetations on [a body part]
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners may assume this medical use is related to normal plants, but here "vegetations" are abnormal tissue masses, not real plants. This sense is highly technical and mainly used in medical contexts.
คำพ้องความหมาย
lesion (A general medical term for damaged or abnormal tissue; not all lesions are vegetations, but both refer to abnormal tissue changes.)
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growth (A broad, non-technical word for an abnormal lump or mass; "vegetation" is more specific and technical.)
คำตรงข้าม
healthy tissue (Refers to normal body tissue without abnormal masses, the opposite of tissue with vegetations.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
valvular vegetations
|infective vegetations
|vegetations on the mitral valve
หัวข้อ
medicine
|health
|body
|science
ตัวอย่าง
- The echocardiogram revealed small vegetations on the aortic valve.
- Antibiotic therapy led to a marked reduction in the size of the vegetations.
- Infective endocarditis is often characterized by friable vegetations on the heart valves.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- The doctor found vegetations on the patient’s heart valve.
- These vegetations are a sign of a serious infection in the heart.
- After treatment, the vegetations on the valve became smaller.
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รูปคำในพจนานุกรม
vegetation
IPA
GB/vˌɛd͡ʒətˈeɪʃən/
US/vˌɛd͡ʒətˈeɪʃən/
พยางค์และการเน้นเสียง
ve - get - a - tion (4 พยางค์)
Stress on 3rd syllable (a)
รูปคำ
Noun
- Base: vegetation
- Plural: vegetation, vegetations
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Forms
vegetations
noun
Core family
vegetable
noun A1
vegetarian
noun/adjective A2
Related words
vegetate
verb
Advanced or less common
vegetative
adjective
vegetarianism
noun
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