Definitions of vegetable [ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl, ˈvɛdʒ ɪ tə-]

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Definition of 'vegetable'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) vegetable
any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food.

2.  vegetable
any part of a plant that is customarily eaten and is not developed from a flower.

3.  vegetable
any member of the vegetable kingdom.

4.  vegetable
a person who is severely impaired mentally or physically.

5.  vegetable
a dull or spiritless person.

6. (adj.) vegetable
of, consisting of, or made from edible vegetables.

7.  vegetable
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of plants.

8.  vegetable
derived from plants.

9.  vegetable
comprising or containing the substance or remains of plants:
vegetable matter.

Etymology: (1350–1400; < LL vegetābilis able to live and grow, der. of L vegetā(re) to quicken)

Definition of 'vegetable'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) vegetable, veggie, veg
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

2. (noun) vegetable
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 of 'vegetable'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) vegetable
a plant eaten as food
broccoli, spinach, and other green vegetables; vegetable soup

Definition of 'vegetable'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) vegetable
a plant. See Plant

2. (noun) vegetable
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

3.  vegetable
of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc

4.  vegetable
consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom

5.  vegetable
plants having distinct flowers and true seeds

6.  vegetable
plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division

Translation of 'vegetable'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a plant or part of a plant, other than a fruit, used as food We grow potatoes, beans and other vegetables; (
Afrikaans: groente, plante	Arabic: خُضْرَه	Bulgarian: зеленчук
Brazilian: vegetal	Czech: zelenina; zeleninový	German: das Gemüse, Gemüse...
Danish: grøntsag; vegetabilsk	Greek: λαχανικό, χορταρικό, φυτι	Spanish: verdura, hortaliza
Estonian: köögivili	Farsi: سبزیجات	Finnish: vihannes
French: (à, de, aux) légume(s)	Hebrew: יֶרֶק	Hindi: सब्जी
Croatian: povrće	Hungarian: zöldség(féle)	Indonesian: sayuran
Icelandic: grænmeti	Italian: verdure, ortaggi	Japanese: 野菜
Korean: 채소	Lithuanian: daržovė	Latvian: dārzenis
Malay: sayur-sayuran	Dutch: groente; plantaardig	Norwegian: grønnsak
Polish: warzywo	Portuguese: vegetal	Romanian: legumă; de legume
Russian: овощ	Slovak: zelenina; zeleninový	Slovenian: zelenjava
Serbian: povrće	Swedish: grönsak; vegetabilisk	Thai: พืชผัก
Turkish: sebze	Taiwanese: 蔬菜	Ukrainian: овочі
Urdu: سبزي	Vietnamese: rau	Chinese: 蔬菜
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