revegetate

verb — 3 senses

verb

Etymology From re- + vegetate.

Obsolete To grow again (of a plant, leaf etc.).

Forsyth's Power real or imaginary of healing wounded Plants, and making them revegetate is a strange Thing:—more strange than true I fancy […].1790 March 18, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:

Biology, Ecology, Natural sciences To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground).

Of barren ground To become recolonized by plants.

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