vegetable
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.
Other meanings
The edible part of such a plant.
A mine explosive device.
A kind of
- produce
Kinds of vegetable
- rabbit food
- legume
- greens
- root vegetable
- squash
- cucumber
- artichoke
- artichoke heart
Related 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
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "vegetābilis" (able to live and grow).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “vegetable” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.