Vegetable

['vedʒtəb(ə)l;'vedʒɪtə-] or ['vɛdʒtəbl]

Definition

(noun.) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant.

(noun.) 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.

Editor: Warren--From WordNet

Definition

(v.) Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.

(v.) Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.

(v.) Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

(v.) Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.

(n.) A plant. See Plant.

(n.) A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.

Checked by Elaine

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Plant.

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Definition

n. an organised body without sensation and voluntary motion nourished by roots fixed in the ground: a plant for the table.—adj. belonging to plants: consisting of or having the nature of plants: derived from vegetables.—adj. Veg′etal of the nature of a vegetable: pertaining to the vital functions of plants and animals as growth reproduction &c.—ns. Veg′etaline a substitute for ivory &c. made by treating woody fibre with sulphuric acid mixing with various ingredients and pressing into any required form; Vegetal′ity vegetable character the vegetal functions collectively.—adj. Vegetā′rian pertaining to those who abstain from animal food: consisting of vegetables.—n. one who holds that vegetables are the only proper food for man.—n. Vegetā′rianism the theory and practice of a vegetarian.—v.i. Veg′etāte to grow by roots and leaves: to sprout: to lead an idle aimless life.—n. Vegetā′tion process of growing as a plant: vegetable growth: plants in general.—adj. Veg′etātive growing as plants: producing growth in plants: pertaining to unconscious or involuntary bodily functions as resembling the processes of vegetable growth: without intellectual activity unprogressive.—adv. Veg′etātively.—n. Veg′etātiveness.—adj. Vegete (vej′ēt) vigorous.—n. Veg′etive (Shak.) a vegetable.—Vegetable kingdom that division of natural objects which embraces vegetables or plants; Vegetable marrow the fruit of a species of gourd so called from its marrow-like appearance; Vegetable mould mould consisting mostly of humus; Vegetable physiology that department of botany which treats of the growth and functions of plants.

Edited by Faye

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of eating vegetables, is an omen of strange luck. You will think for a time that you are tremendously successful, but will find to your sorrow that you have been grossly imposed upon. Withered, or decayed vegetables, bring unmitigated woe and sadness. For a young woman to dream that she is preparing vegetables for dinner, foretells that she will lose the man she desired through pique, but she will win a well-meaning and faithful husband. Her engagements will be somewhat disappointing.

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Examples

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