adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- This substance is vegetable, not mineral.
Meaning relationships
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adj
Of or relating to plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of or relating to vegetables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Any plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: veg, veggie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The edible part of such a plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: veg, veggie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cabbage
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A mine (explosive device).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, slang
Qualifier: RAF
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noun
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: veggie, veg
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck
Narrower terms: julienne, julienne vegetable, raw vegetable, rabbit food, legume, potherb, greens, green, leafy vegetable, solanaceous vegetable, root vegetable, pieplant, rhubarb, cruciferous vegetable, squash, cucumber, cuke, artichoke, globe artichoke, artichoke heart, asparagus, bamboo shoot, onion, leek, cardoon, celery, gumbo, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, truffle, earthnut, plantain, fennel, Florence fennel, finocchio
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris, spinach, spinach plant, prickly-seeded spinach, Spinacia oleracea, artichoke, globe artichoke, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus, cardoon, Cynara cardunculus
History
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *weg-o-der.? Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woǵéyetider. Proto-Italic *wogeōder.? Latin vegeō Latin vegetus Latin vegetāre, vegetō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin vegetābilisbor. Old French vegetablebor. Middle English vegetable English vegetable From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett, whence modern wort and ovest. Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.
Across languages
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