Vegetable
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants
"Decaying vegetable matter"
noun
(2) Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
(3) Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
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Etymology
(adj.), from vegetabilis ("able to live and grow"), derived from vegetare ("to enliven")
Noun
- Any plant.
- A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.
- The edible part of such a plant.
- A person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment.
Related terms
- vegan
- vegetarian
- vegetate
- vegetation
- veggie
- vegetable oil