| 单词 | vegetable |
| 释义 | vegetable n. & adj. --n 1. Bot. any of various plants, esp. a herbaceous plant used wholly or partly for food, e.g. a cabbage, potato, turnip, or bean. 2. colloq. a a person who is incapable of normal intellectual activity, esp. through brain injury etc. b a person lacking in animation or living a monotonous life. --adj 1. of, derived from, relating to, or comprising plants or plant life, esp. as distinct from animal life or mineral substances. 2. of or relating to vegetables as food. 3. a unresponsive to stimulus (vegetable behaviour). b uneventful, monotonous (a vegetable existence). Phrases and idioms vegetable butter a vegetable fat with the consistency of butter. vegetable ivory see IVORY. vegetable marrow see MARROW 1. vegetable oyster = SALSIFY. vegetable parchment see PARCHMENT 2. vegetable spaghetti 1. a variety of marrow with flesh resembling spaghetti. 2. its flesh. vegetable sponge = LOOFAH. vegetable tallow see TALLOW. vegetable wax an exudation of certain plants such as sumac. Etymology: ME f. OF vegetable or LL vegetabilis animating (as VEGETATE) |
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