It smelled green, fecund, as if vegetation was growing, dying, rotting, and giving off a gas too thick to breathe.

Now and then they could glimpse the sunlight gleaming on its surface, wherever the vegetation had died back sufficiently.

In a temperate northern hemisphere climate, vegetation dies right back in February.

Furthermore, basements were often covered with a thick, black substance, and vegetation was also dying.

When atmospheric circulation settles into a characteristic pattern of no rain and high heat over the region, the vegetation dies.

The vegetation wilted and died in the creature's vicinity, making a clear path.

All the vegetation in a space half a mile long and three hundred yards wide had died overnight.

The all-entangling vegetation had died back from the stone ruins over the winter and had yet to reclaim them.

All vegetation was dying, after July had felt the breath of January.

On Vulcan, it is in the heat of summer that the vegetation dies.