VEGETABLE
\vˈɛd͡ʒɪtəbə͡l], \vˈɛdʒɪtəbəl], \v_ˈɛ_dʒ_ɪ_t_ə_b_əl]\
Definitions of VEGETABLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
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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
By Princeton University
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edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
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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
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
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Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
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Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
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Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
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A plant. See Plant.
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A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
By Oddity Software
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Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
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Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
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Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
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Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
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A plant. See Plant.
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A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
By Noah Webster.
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A plant, especially a plant cultivated for food; the portion of such a plant gathered and prepared for market, or ready for the table.
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Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; composed of plants; as, vegetable life.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An organized body without sensation and voluntary motion, nourished by roots fixed in the ground: a plant for the table.
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Belonging to plants: consisting of or having the nature of plants: derived from vegetables.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling plants.
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Pertaining to garden vegetables.
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The edible part of a garden plant.
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Any plant.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to plants or plant life.
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Derived from plants or plant life.
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Any form or species of plant.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. An organized body destitute of sense and voluntary motion, deriving its nourishment through pores on its outer surface, or vessels adhering to some other body, as the earth, and in general propagating itself by seeds;—in a more limited sense, a plant cultivated in gardens, and used for culinary purposes.