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vegetable
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vegetable
adj.
consisting of or pertaining to vegetables
n.
plant, edible fruit of a plant; (Informal) person having little or no brain activity (usually due to an injury)
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Vegetable
In everyday usage, a vegetable is any part of a plant that is consumed by humans as food as part of a savory meal. The term "vegetable" is somewhat arbitrary, and largely defined through culinary and cultural tradition. It normally excludes other food derived from plants such as fruits, nuts and cereal grains, but includes seeds such as pulses. The original meaning of the word vegetable, still used in biology, was to describe all types of plant, as in the terms "vegetable kingdom" and "vegetable matter".
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vegetable
Noun
1. edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
(synonym) veggie
(hypernym) produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck
(hyponym) raw vegetable, rabbit food
(part-holonym) herb, 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
(hypernym) herb, herbaceous plant
(hyponym) beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris
Adjective
1. of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants; "decaying vegetable matter"
(antonym) mineral
(similar) rootlike
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vegetable
n.
zelenina
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vegetable
Rzecz.
jarzyna; warzywo
