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vegetable
CEFRA1
/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A plant or part of a plant eaten as food.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA 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.
Examples
The tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit.
Tom ate vegetable soup this morning.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 3
- Synonyms
- 3
Also pronounced
- [ˈved͡ʒ.tə.bɫ̩]
- [ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bɫ̩]
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsThe edible part of such a plant.
Any plant.
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.
More examples
In contextThis substance is vegetable, not mineral.
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.
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.
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Origin
noun
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.