Vegetable meaning

What does “vegetable” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“vegetable” is a noun with 2 meanings. Its most common meaning is: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant.

vegetable

noun

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

    Synonymsveggieveg
  2. 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

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University

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