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noun. A plant cultivated for its edible parts, such as the roots of the beet, the leaves of spinach, the flower buds of broccoli, or the fruit or seeds of certain species, as beans, corn, and squash.

noun. The edible part of such a plant.

noun. A member of the vegetable kingdom, especially a green plant.

noun. One who is severely impaired mentally and physically, as by brain injury or disease.

adjective. Of, relating to, or derived from plants or a plant.

adjective. Made from or with edible plants or plant parts.

adjective. Growing or reproducing like a plant.

Having life such as a plant has.

Of or pertaining to plants; characteristic of plants; also, having the characteristics of a plant or of plants; resembling a plant or what belongs to plants; occupied or concerned with plants.

An alkaloid.

noun. A plant. See plant.

noun. In a more limited sense, a herbaceous plant used wholly or in part for culinary purposes, or for feeding cattle, sheep, or other animals, as cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, potatoes, spinach, peas, and beans. The whole plant may be so used, or its tops or leaves, or its roots, tubers, etc., or its fruit or seed.

noun. A plant. See plant.

noun. 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.

noun. A person who has permanently lost consciousness, due to damage to the brain, but remains alive; sometimes continued life requires support by machinery such as breathing tubes. Such a person is said to be in a vegetative state.

adjective. Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants

adjective. Consisting of, or comprising, plants.

adjective. an alkaloid.

adjective. See Vegetable sulphur, below.

adjective. a name of several kinds of concrete vegetable oil; as that produced by the Indian butter tree, the African shea tree, and the Pentadesma butyracea, a tree of the order Guttiferæ, also African. Still another kind is pressed from the seeds of cocoa (Theobroma).

adjective. a textile material, manufactured in Germany from pine-needle wool, a down or fiber obtained from the leaves of the Pinus sylvestris.

adjective. See Ivory nut, under Ivory.

adjective. See Pectin.

adjective. See the last Phrase, below.

adjective. See Vegetable leather, under Leather.

adjective. an egg-shaped gourd, commonly eight to ten inches long. It is noted for the very tender quality of its flesh, and is a favorite culinary vegetable in England. It has been said to be of Persian origin, but is now thought to have been derived from a form of the American pumpkin.

adjective. the oyster plant. See under Oyster.

adjective. papyrine.

adjective. a white woolly plant (Raoulia eximia) of New Zealand, which grows in the form of large fleecy cushions on the mountains.

adjective. a cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree (Chorisia speciosa). It is used for various purposes, as for stuffing cushions, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers.

adjective. See 1st Loof.

adjective. the fine and highly inflammable spores of the club moss (Lycopodium clavatum); witch meal.

adjective. a substance resembling tallow, obtained from various plants; as, Chinese vegetable tallow, obtained from the seeds of the tallow tree. Indian vegetable tallow is a name sometimes given to piney tallow.

adjective. a waxy excretion on the leaves or fruits of certain plants, as the bayberry.

adjective. that primary division of living things which includes all plants. The classes of the vegetable kingdom have been grouped differently by various botanists. The following is one of the best of the many arrangements of the principal subdivisions.

noun. Any plant.

noun. 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.

noun. The edible part of such a plant.

noun. A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.

adjective. Of or relating to plants.

adjective. Of or relating to vegetables.

noun. edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

noun. 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

"(In fact, it's the No. 2 vegetable in the land, after potatoes, though iceberg has so few nutrients the term vegetable is largely a courtesy.)"

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chattel vegetable  leather vegetable  vegetable acids  vegetable alkali  vegetable anatomy  

vegan  vegetable oil  vegetarian  vegetate  vegetation  

Herb  beef  butter  chicken  coffee  

Boston lettuce  Chinese cabbage  French bean  Irish potato  Kraut  

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