Princeton's WordNet

1. vegetable, veggie, veg(noun)

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

2. vegetable(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

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. vegetable(noun)ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl, ˈvɛdʒ ɪ tə-

   a plant eaten as food

   broccoli, spinach, and other green vegetables; vegetable soup

Wiktionary

1. vegetable(Noun)

   Any plant.

2. vegetable(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, or spice in the culinary sense.

3. vegetable(Noun)

   The edible part of such a plant.

4. vegetable(Noun)

   A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.

5. vegetable(Adjective)

   Of or relating to plants.

6. vegetable(Adjective)

   Of or relating to vegetables.

Origin: (1350-1400) (adj.), from vegetabilis ("able to live and grow"), derived from vegetare ("to enliven")

Webster Dictionary

1. Vegetable(u)

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

2. Vegetable(u)

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

3. Vegetable(u)

   plants having distinct flowers and true seeds

4. Vegetable(u)

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

5. Vegetable(noun)

   a plant. See Plant

6. Vegetable(noun)

   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

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