vegetable
/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
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, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed
- plural
- vegetables
Meanings
- 1
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, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed
Why must I eat vegetables?
Tatoeba · araneo · CC BY 2.0 FR
He doesn't have any vegetables.
Tatoeba · araneo · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
Any plantrare
- 3
The edible part of such a plantrare
- 4
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 staterare
- 5
A mine (explosive device)rare