revegetate
English
Etymology
From re- + vegetate.
Verb
revegetate (third-person singular simple present revegetates, present participle revegetating, simple past and past participle revegetated)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To grow again (of a plant, leaf etc.). [17th–19th c.]
- 1790, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 18 March:
- 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, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 18 March:
- (transitive, chiefly ecology) To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground). [from 19th c.]
- (intransitive, of barren ground) To become recolonized by plants. [from 20th c.]