revegetating

Verb

revegetate (third-person singular simple present revegetates, present participle revegetating, simple past and past participle revegetated)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow again (of a plant, leaf etc.).
   • 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 March 18, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana
2. (transitive) To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground).
3. (intransitive) To become recolonized by plants.