Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cause (eroded land, for example) to bear a new cover of vegetation.
- intransitive verb To bear a new cover of vegetation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become green again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To vegetate anew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To become
recolonized byplants - verb To
vegetate again (in all senses)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet refuge personnel have been tirelessly working to revegetate the remaining islands.
Jamie Rappaport Clark: Gulf Disaster Shows Drilling Is Too Dangerous 2010
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Yet refuge personnel have been unrelentingly doing all they can to help revegetate the remaining islands, with good results: brown pelicans and other birds have returned to nest successfully in recent years.
Jamie Rappaport Clark: Coastal Refuges Face Destruction 2010
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And while tar sands miners are required to completely restore and revegetate sites, little has been done.
Bob Dinneen: When It Comes to Land Use Change -- Look at Oil 2009
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Hydrologic disturbances may occur on Reserve lands in the following forms, and may require listed action for restoration; four wheel drive, or woods roads; removal and restoration; removal of fill from stabilized or improved roads; closing unnecessary footpaths; filling and revegetating unnecessary ponds, or managing those ponds as natural waterbodies where beneficial; remove and allow drainage ditches to revegetate and restore old fire plowlines; and filling and replanting borrow pits.
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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White fir is used to revegetate disturbed forest sites where it naturally occurs.
White fir 2009
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Its site is a former naval dumping ground, so the project aims to revegetate the site, and enable it to utilize all stormwater.
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The 1,260-acre Homewood Mountain Resort, for example, has been working since 2006 to revegetate old roads and ski trails, coat forest floors with chipped wood and pump runoff back up the mountain.
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In response to this the Ord River Regeneration Reserve was established to limit stock numbers and revegetate bare land.
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Fields are usually left idle after short periods of cultivation to revegetate (usually 1-2 years).
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And we'll work with the legislator and we'll work with the city officials and with the city of Los Angeles and the people of Los Angeles to find resources from our recently passed bonds and other sources to prevent flooding, revegetate the hillside and restore this great, great nursery.
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