Revegetate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Revegetate is a verb meaning (transitive, chiefly ecology) To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground).
Meaning
(transitive, chiefly ecology) To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground).
More Meanings
- (intransitive, of barren ground) To become recolonized by plants.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To grow again (of a plant, leaf etc.).
Example Sentences
Forsyth's Power real or imaginary of healing wounded Plants, and making them revegetate is a strange Thing:—more strange than true I fancy […].
Word Forms
- revegetates
- revegetating
- revegetated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include regreen, regerminate, recultivate, vegetate, regrow, regrass.
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