vegetable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any plant.
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.
The edible part of such a plant.
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.
A mine (explosive device).

adj

Of or relating to plants.
Of or relating to vegetables.

Pronunciation

/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ [ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bɫ̩] /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.ə.tə.bəl/ En-uk-vegetable.ogg en-us-vegetable.ogg /ˈvɛt͡ʃ.tə.bəl/ /ˌvɛdʒɪˈʈebəl/ /ˈvɛdʒɪʈəbɪl/ /ˈved͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ [ˈved͡ʒ.tə.bɫ̩]

Word forms

vegetable vegetables vegitable

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

Related words

vegan vegetarian vegetate vegetation :Category:Vegetables

Derived words

aromatic vegetable fruit vegetable green vegetable bug hydrolyzed vegetable protein leaf vegetable multivegetable nonvegetable pod vegetable regrowing vegetable root vegetable sea vegetable textured vegetable protein Tianjin preserved vegetable vegeburger vegetable acid vegetable albumin vegetable-based vegetable box vegetable butter vegetable carbon vegetable casein vegetable caterpillar vegetable dye vegetable egg vegetable fat vegetable fern vegetable fibrin vegetable food vegetable garden vegetable hummingbird vegetable ivory vegetable ivory tree vegetable jelly vegetable juice vegetable kingdom vegetable lamb vegetable leather vegetable marrow vegetable mercury vegetable mucus vegetable oil vegetable oyster vegetable parchment vegetable pear vegetable rennet vegetable sheep vegetable shortening vegetable soup vegetable spaghetti vegetable sulfur vegetable sulphur vegetable vitellin vegetably veggie

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