vegetable

Part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling plants.

Part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to garden vegetables.

Part of speech: noun

The edible part of a garden plant.

Part of speech: noun

Any plant.

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Usage examples "vegetable":

  1. I've been simply a vegetable, haven't I, V.? - "Peggy", Laura E. Richards.
  2. They are generally well clothed, and have a plenty of food, not animal indeed, but vegetable, which is as wholesome. - "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson", Thomas Jefferson.
  3. The three lads and three girls walked together through Mrs. Dean's garden with its grass walks and flower beds and vegetable patches surrounded with rose bushes. - "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come", John Fox.