revegetate

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow again (of a plant, leaf etc.).Examples: "Forsyth's Power real or imaginary of healing wounded Plants, and making them revegetate is a strange Thing:—more strange than true I fancy […]."intransitiveobsolete

2. (transitive, chiefly ecology) To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground).transitive

3. (intransitive, of barren ground) To become recolonized by plants.intransitive