revegetate

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.). [17th–19th c.]
   • 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). [from 19th c.]
3. (intransitive, of barren ground) To become recolonized by plants. [from 20th c.]