"vegetable" Definition

Definitions for the word "vegetable" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v.
Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v.
Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v.
Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v.
Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A plant. See Plant.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 plant, esp. A herbaceous plant used for food, e.g. A cabbage, potato, or bean. 2 colloq. Derog. A offens. Person who is severely mentally incapacitated, esp. Through brain injury etc. B dull or inactive person. adj. Of, derived from, or relating to plant life or vegetables as food. [latin: related to *vegetate]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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