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- [vej-tuh-buh l, vej-i-tuh-]
- /ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl, ˈvɛdʒ ɪ tə-/
- /ˈvedʒtəbl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [vej-tuh-buh l, vej-i-tuh-]
- /ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl, ˈvɛdʒ ɪ tə-/
Definitions of vegetable word
- noun vegetable any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower. 1
- noun vegetable the edible part of such a plant, as the tuber of the potato. 1
- noun vegetable any member of the vegetable kingdom; plant. 1
- noun vegetable Informal. a person who is so severely impaired mentally or physically as to be largely incapable of conscious responses or activity. 1
- noun vegetable a dull, spiritless, and uninteresting person. 1
- adjective vegetable of, consisting of, or made from edible vegetables: a vegetable diet. 1
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Origin of vegetable
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English (adj.) < Late Latin vegetābilis able to live and grow, equivalent to vegetā(re) to quicken (see vegetate) + -bilis -ble
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Parts of speech for Vegetable
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
vegetable popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
vegetable usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for vegetable
adj vegetable
- azoic — without life; characteristic of the ages that have left no evidence of life in the form of organic remains
- inanimate — not animate; lifeless.
- insentient — not sentient; without sensation or feeling; inanimate.
- mineral — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
noun vegetable
- beet — Beet is a crop with a thick round root. It is often used to feed animals, especially cows.
- borscht — a Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
- broccoli — Broccoli is a vegetable with green stalks and green or purple tops.
- broccolis — a form of a cultivated cruciferous plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, whose leafy stalks and clusters of usually green buds are eaten as a vegetable.
- brussels sprout — Brussels sprouts are vegetables that look like tiny cabbages.
verb vegetable
- can — You use can when you are mentioning a quality or fact about something which people may make use of if they want to.
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