noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dense vegetation (= plants in general )
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The land around here is covered with dense vegetation.
tangle of bushes/branches/vegetation etc
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She followed him, pushing through the dense tangle of bushes and branches.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aquatic
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The bottom was mud and rocks, with some overhanging plants but no aquatic vegetation .
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The species may be encountered in any suitable marsh or dense area of aquatic vegetation at the coast or inland.
dense
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The southernmost has the densest vegetation , the most complete cover, and the widest variety of both angiosperms and plant communities.
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Firefighters could not get near the blaze because of the dense vegetation .
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Breeds on still and slow-moving fresh water with dense fringe of vegetation , also marshes, fens, bogs.
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A sound wave has a much greater chance of being scattered and absorbed by such dense vegetation .
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These attractive tetras make a good, peaceful community fish if the aquarium has dense vegetation with open water for swimming.
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This is particularly true in areas of dense vegetation such as tropical rainforest.
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The birds spend much of their day foraging in dense , varied vegetation and return to roost together at dusk.
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Half an hour later and we were ready for a ride through the dense vegetation and forests of palms.
green
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They obtain most of the liquid they need through the intake of green vegetation .
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For a while it looks like the red earth, green vegetation and gentle hills of Sedona.
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Dense masses of vivid green vegetation swayed and lapped in slow motion.
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Feel the moisture in the air from the lush, green vegetation .
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The hills and mountains are covered in lush green vegetation .
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The heavy rains have brought luxuriant green vegetation to these normally arid islands.
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At this stage no green vegetation existed, so only photolysis could have created oxygen.
lush
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Lefkas has golden sandy beaches, mountainous scenery and lush vegetation .
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Feel the moisture in the air from the lush , green vegetation .
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A deep path cut through the lush and noisy vegetation .
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The course switch-backed along the main road through hills covered in lush vegetation .
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The hills and mountains are covered in lush green vegetation .
rotting
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But unlike earthworms, which eat rotting vegetation , the caecilians are carnivores.
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Rake out as much leaf debris and rotting vegetation as you can - a spring-lined garden rake will help.
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Some suggest that the monster is rotting vegetation lifted by bubbles of gas, produced in the loch bed by bacteria.
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Precious minerals mutated into rotting vegetation .
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The mud on his lips tasted of rotting vegetation and the stench of it was thick in his nostrils.
thick
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There had been rain earlier in the week and the soil under the thick vegetation was still damp.
■ NOUN
cover
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This is due to competition for land between grazing and cropping as well as a reduction in the vegetation cover for fuelwood.
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Differences in the vegetation cover can affect erosion by direct protection of the ground and by binding the soil mantle together.
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The resulting openings, devoid of protective vegetation cover , were then subject to erosion which in turn precluded regeneration.
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On the low ground nearby where the vegetation cover was extensive, birds were also plentiful.
type
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Table 1 shows the losses of different semi-natural vegetation types summed for the 12 parishes.
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Major vegetation types are described, as are the nature reserves, and the place is given where each photo was taken.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They made their way through the thick vegetation in the valley.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A deep path cut through the lush and noisy vegetation .
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And where was his companion, who went down with him just now, into a sprawl of vegetation ?
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Breeds on still and slow-moving fresh water with dense fringe of vegetation , also marshes, fens, bogs.
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For example, pack horses hauled some vegetation from the floor of Supai Canyon, home of the Havasupai people.
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Pockets of live vegetation dot the otherwise black-and-white landscape, places randomly spared by arbitrary shifts of wind and fire.
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Readings showed levels of 56,000 becquerels per kilogram in vegetation and soil samples.
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The vegetation had a dank and wintry look to it still, quite different from the lowlands.
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The most sophisticated farmers are the leaf-cutting ants, which cultivate fungus on fresh vegetation thanks to an assembly-line of specialised castes.