Vegetable

Noun

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.

the edible part of such a plant, as the tuber of the potato.

any member of the vegetable kingdom; plant.

Informal . a person who is so severely impaired mentally or physically as to be largely incapable of conscious responses or activity.

a dull, spiritless, and uninteresting person.

Adjective

of, consisting of, or made from edible vegetables

a vegetable diet.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of plants

the vegetable kingdom.

derived from plants

vegetable fiber; vegetable oils.

consisting of, comprising, or containing the substance or remains of plants

vegetable matter; a vegetable organism.

of the nature of or resembling a plant

the vegetable forms of Art Nouveau ornament.

inactive; inert; dull; uneventful

a vegetable existence.

Synonyms

noun

edible , green , greens , herb , herbaceous plant , legume , produce , root , salad , truck , yellownotes:fruit is the name given to those plants which have an ovary used for food; vegetable is the name given to a large category of herbaceous plants with parts used for food