revegetate

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English

Etymology

From re- +‎ vegetate.

Verb

revegetate (third-person singular simple present revegetates, present participle revegetating, simple past and past participle revegetated)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow again (of a plant, leaf etc.).
    • 1790 March 18, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
      Forsyth's Power real or imaginary of healing wounded Plants, and making them revegetate is a strange Thing:—more strange than true I fancy [] .
  2. (transitive, chiefly ecology) To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground).
  3. (intransitive, of barren ground) To become recolonized by plants.