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Adjective
/ˈvejtəbəl/,/ˈvəjətə-/,
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vegetables, plural;
  1. Of or relating to vegetables as food
    • - a vegetable garden
    • - vegetable soup
  2. Of or relating to plants or plant life, esp. as distinct from animal life or mineral substances
    • - vegetable matter
Noun
  1. A plant or part of a plant used as food, typically as accompaniment to meat or fish, such as a cabbage, potato, carrot, or bean

  2. offensive. A person who is incapable of normal mental or physical activity, esp. through brain damage

  3. offensive. A person with a dull or inactive life
    • - I thought I'd sort of flop back and be a vegetable for a bit
  1. edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
  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
  3. The noun vegetable usually means an edible plant or part of a plant other than a sweet fruit or seed. This usually means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant.
  4. (Vegetables (band)) National School were an alternative pop duo based in Oxford, England, featuring Joe Tucker (keyboard and vocals) and Ruth Smith (drums and vocals).
  5. (Vegetables (song)) "Vegetables" (or "Vega-Tables") is a song written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for the American Rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1967 album Smiley Smile with Al Jardine and Brian Wilson on lead vocals.
  6. (Vegetables (Stella)) Vegetables is the ninth episode of Stella. It first aired on August 23, 2005.
  7. Any plant; 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, or spice in the culinary sense; The edible part of such a plant; A person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact ...
  8. (Vegetables) The variety of fruits and vegetables that Bengal has to offer is incredible. A host of gourds, roots and tubers, leafy greens, succulent stalks, lemons and limes, green and purple eggplants, red onions, plantain, broad beans, okra, banana tree stems and flowers, green jackfruit and ...
  9. (Vegetables) when a wine smells or tastes of something you have had in a salad, but you cannot pin that something down, it’s okay to call it vegetal.
  10. (VEGETABLES) Your choice of (1) one of the following:
  11. (Vegetables) ("yaraḳ," because raised in the "gan ha-yaraḳ" or garden; also "'eseb"; "orah," I Kings iv. 39; or "zer'onim," Dan. i. 16): Lentils ("'adashim") were the principal vegetable, which many considered especially toothsome (comp. Gen. xxv. 29 et seq. ...
  12. (Vegetables) (also known as Veggies) are plants that can be pulled out of the ground and thrown at enemies to damage or defeat them.
  13. (Vegetables) According to Joan: Whatever you do, don't serve a red one next to a yellow one, or two white ones together! (MWOL)
  14. (Vegetables) Dark green leafy vegetables include kale, collards, watercress, leeks, boy choy to name a few. They are good sources of fiber and many vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin C, and calcium. The darker the leaves, the more nutrients the vegetable usually has.
  15. (Vegetables) Here you can read about various vegetables, their nutritional Facts, their uses, their cultivation and their recipes, so click your Favourite vegetable and browse about it. ...
  16. (Vegetables) Jams, honey and sandwich spreads
  17. (Vegetables) Take a Quiz    Back to Top
  18. (Vegetables) Things they started making cricketers eat in the 1980s, as new-fangled dieticians ruined the joys of Brown Windsor soup, steak and kidney pie and treacle tart for the professional athlete’s lunch.
  19. (Vegetables) To dream of eating vegetables, is an omen of strange luck. You will think for a time that you are tremendously successful, but will find to your sorrow that you have been grossly imposed upon. Withered, or decayed vegetables, bring unmitigated woe and sadness. ...
  20. (Vegetables) acoustic or magnetic mines
  21. (Vegetables) are associated with basic needs and they suggest the goodness that you need.
  22. (Vegetables) are essential to the health of rabbits. At least two cups of three different vegetables per 6 lbs. of body weight should be fed to your rabbit daily. ...
  23. (Vegetables) okra, green beans, cabbage, corn, turnips, garlic, green peppers, potatoes, onions
  24. Strictly speaking, a vegetable is a garden plant, portions of which are edible. For culinary purposes, the word vegetable refers to any edible portion of a non-animal living organism, be it plant, fungus or protist (several types of algae), that is not sweetened to taste. ...
  25. The odour/flavour stimulus associated with certain vegetables such as turnips or cabbage.