vegetable
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
Any plant.
- That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers,…
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.
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A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that…
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).
Of or relating to plants.
- This substance is vegetable not mineral.
- On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
Of or relating to vegetables.
The neighborhood
- synonymvegetable
- neighborvegan
- neighborvegetarian
- neighborvegetate
- neighborvegetation
- neighbor:Category:Vegetables
- neighborplant
- neighborfood
- neighborlegume
- neighborbean
- neighborbeet
- neighborbroccoli
- neighborcabbage
Derived
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 · +14 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at vegetable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at vegetable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at vegetable
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA