vegetable meaning

Noun: vegetable  vej(i)tubul

1. Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
   - veggie, veg 
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

Derived forms: vegetables

Type of: garden truck, green goods, green groceries, herb, herbaceous plant, produce

Part of: herb, herbaceous plant

Encyclopedia: Vegetable

[American slang]
n. someone who is braindead; someone who acts brain-dead; a person almost totally destroyed by drugs.
• You are such a vegetable!
• You want to end up a vegetable? Just keep shooting that stuff.
• Cable T.V. is turning me into a vegetable.

[Medicine]
adj
1
a : of, relating to, constituting, or growing like plants
b : consisting of plants
2 : made or obtained from plants or plant products
²vegetable
n : a usu. herbaceous plant (as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part; also : such an edible part

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1. all vegetables are healthful foods.
2. she instituted a vegetable garden there.
3. we grow our own vegetables in the garden.
4. he knows little about vegetable cultivation.
5. all around the village are vegetable fields.