vegetable

Noun

1. Any plant.
2. 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, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
3. The edible part of such a plant.
4. (derogatory, figuratively) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
5. (historical, slang) A mine (explosive device).

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to plants.
2. (not-comparable) Of or relating to vegetables.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: vegetable

Cognate with Old English: wyrt

In summary

From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett.
Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.

Synonyms

plant

🌱

veggie

vegetables

veg

curry

🍛

vegetal

green

herb

🌿

greens

vegetative

pepper

wort

green plants

celery

grass

tomato

🍅

roots

pot-herb

vegetation

leaves

🍃

meal

nettle

paper

peon

produce

shrub

stems

KO

tree

🌳

tubers

undergrowth

vegetable life

vegetable matter

green vegetables

ceremony to inaugurate use of new millet crop

dried vegetables

fried food

water plant

fresh vegetables

Urtica

phyton

farm plant

short cycled plant

green vegetable

any edible leaf

leguminous plant

food plant

beet

phytum

beetroot

Sentences

I think I see John and Mina over there in the vegetable aisle .