vegetation vs ground cover

ground cover vs vegetation

vegetation and ground cover both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vegetation	Yes	No	No	No
ground cover	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ground cover is a hyponym of vegetation; that is, ground cover is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than vegetation:

vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period
ground cover: low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow

Other hyponyms of vegetation include browse, brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket, growth, bush, chaparral, scrub, stand, forest, wood, woods, shrubbery, garden, brier, brier patch, brierpatch, groundcover.

vegetation (noun)	ground cover (noun)
inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life	small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor
an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)	low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow
all the plant life in a particular region or period
the process of growth in plants

Difference between vegetation and ground cover

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