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The meaning of the word "Vegetable" in English


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

Vegetable v. : Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.

Vegetable v. : Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

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

Vegetable n. : A plant. See Plant.

Vegetable 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.

Example:
What Vegetables juice well to increase my daily Vegetable consumption?

Taxonomy
vegetable, fruit, plant, Articles with unsourced statements, Fruit and vegetable, fruits and vegetables, botanical sense, tomato, free encyclopedia, Search, food preparation, seeds, savory dish, leafy vegetables, dessert, diet, Storage, products.

Defination from the web:
... Thus in a scientific context, a plant part may correctly be termed a "fruit", even though it is used in cooking or food preparation as a vegetable. ... 

synonyms
  (noun) veggie
  (noun) garden truck
  (noun) green goods
  (noun) green groceries
  (noun) herb
  (noun) herbaceous plant
  (noun) produce
antonyms
  (adjective) animal
  (adjective) mineral
similar terms
  (adjective) banana-like
  (adjective) bean-like
  (adjective) blackberry-like
  (adjective) branch-like
  (adjective) branchlike
  (adjective) cabbage-like
  (adjective) cherry-like
  (adjective) crabapple-like
  (adjective) garlic-like
  (adjective) gooseberry-like
  (adjective) gourd-like
  (adjective) melon-like
  (adjective) moss-like
  (adjective) mosslike
  (adjective) mushroom-shaped
  (adjective) onion-like
  (adjective) parsley-like
  (adjective) plant-like
  (adjective) plum-shaped
  (adjective) root-like
  (adjective) rooted
  (adjective) rootlike
  (adjective) seed-like
  (adjective) seed-producing
  (adjective) seedlike
  (adjective) stalk-like
  (adjective) stalklike
  (adjective) stem-like
  (adjective) stemlike
  (adjective) tomato-like
  (adjective) vegetal
  (adjective) vegetational
  (adjective) vegetative


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