Historical Examples. 1  The vegetation was extravagant in its luxuriance and splendor. 2  Except a few lichens, there was not a mark of vegetation about it. 3  The grotto was completely lost to sight beneath the onslaught of vegetation. 4  The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds. Essays, First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson There was no soil, no moss, no lichen, no trace of vegetation.
Nutrition labels tell you how much crude protein is in food. Protein is key to good health -- it's involved in immune function, oxygen transport and maintaining strong muscle tissue. Crude protein is a measure of how much protein is in food, based on laboratory tests studying the food's chemical composition. When you look for protein content on a food's nutrition label, the number you see refers to crude protein.
Soybean remains the most important and preferred source of high quality vegetable protein for animal feed manufacture. Soybean meal, which is the by-product of oil extraction, has a high crude protein content of 44 to 50 percent and a balanced amino acid composition, complementary to maize meal for feed formulation. A high level of inclusion (30-40 percent) is used in high performance monogastric diets.