VEGETABLE

noun a plant. ·see plant.

2. vegetable ·v plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

3. vegetable ·v consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.

4. vegetable ·v plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.

5. vegetable ·v of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, ·etc.

6. vegetable ·noun 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.