vegetable
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
vegetable (plural vegetables)
- Any plant.
- 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)
- That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
- 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)
- 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, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
- Synonyms: veg, veggie
- The edible part of such a plant.
- Synonyms: veg, veggie
- (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.
- Synonyms: cabbage
- French: végétal
- German: Gewächs
- Italian: vegetale
- Portuguese: vegetal
- Russian: расте́ние
- Spanish: vegetal
- French: légume
- German: Gemüse
- Italian: verdura
- Portuguese: verdura, hortaliça, legume
- Russian: о́вощ
- Spanish: verdura, legumbre, hortaliza
- French: légume
- German: Dahinvegetierende
- Italian: vegetale
- Portuguese: vegetal
- Russian: о́вощ
- Spanish: vegetal
vegetable (not comparable)
- Of or relating to plant#Noun|plants.
- 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], OCLC 654408264 ↗, page 1 ↗:
- On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
- Of or relating to vegetables.
- French: végétal
- German: pflanzlich
- Italian: vegetale
- Portuguese: vegetal
- Spanish: vegetal
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