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vegetable

ve·ge·table

UK/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.ə.tə.bəl/ US/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ fairly common slang
noun (2) adjective (1)

noun

1.

edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

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2.

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

adjective

1.

of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants

  • “decaying vegetable matter”
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Origin

From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”).

Phrases

  • aromatic vegetable
  • fruit vegetable
  • green vegetable bug
  • hydrolyzed vegetable protein
  • leaf vegetable
  • leafy vegetable
  • pod vegetable
  • regrowing vegetable

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