any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
the edible part of such a plant, as the tuber of the potato.
any member of the plant kingdom; plant.
Informal. a person who is so severely impaired mentally or physically as to be largely incapable of conscious responses or activity.
a dull, spiritless, and uninteresting person.
adjective
of, consisting of, or made from edible vegetables: a vegetable diet.
of, relating to, or characteristic of plants: the vegetable kingdom.
derived from plants: vegetable fiber; vegetable oils.
consisting of, comprising, or containing the substance or remains of plants: vegetable matter; a vegetable organism.
of the nature of or resembling a plant: the vegetable forms of Art Nouveau ornament.
inactive; inert; dull; uneventful: a vegetable existence.
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Origin of vegetable
1350–1400; Middle English (adjective) <Late Latin vegetābilis “able to live and grow,” equivalent to vegetā(re) “to quicken” (see vegetate) + -bilis -ble
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It was rejecting the microwave dinners and canned vegetables of your foreparents, making double stock from leftover roast chickens instead of buying broth in a carton, and eschewing pre-cut fruit and instant rice.
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You drive to the allotment and attend to your flowers and vegetables.
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"He poured out everything Gregory gave him after that, the vegetable juices, every elixir," Harold says.
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In the dark country I had expected to find little if any vegetable growth.
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It has been aptly termed the "princess of the vegetable world."
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The soil is sandy silt with a considerable admixture of vegetable matter.
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There will be a garden and flowerbeds, and a vegetable garden.
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British Dictionary definitions for vegetable
vegetable
/ (ˈvɛdʒtəbəl) /
noun
any of various herbaceous plants having parts that are used as food, such as peas, beans, cabbage, potatoes, cauliflower, and onions
informala person who has lost control of his mental faculties, limbs, etc, as from an injury, mental disease, etc
a dull inactive person
(as modifier)a vegetable life
(modifier)consisting of or made from edible vegetablesa vegetable diet
(modifier)of, relating to, characteristic of, derived from, or consisting of plants or plant materialvegetable oils
rareany member of the plant kingdom
Word Origin for vegetable
c14 (adj): from Late Latin vegetābilis animating, from vegetāre to enliven, from Latin vegēre to excite
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