different between grocer vs vegetable

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????.s?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???o?.s??/, /???o?.???/
• Rhymes: -??s?(?)
• Homophone: grosser

Noun

grocer (plural grocers)

1. A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.

Derived terms

• greengrocer
• grocer's, grocer’s
• grocery

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Verb

grocer (third-person singular simple present grocers, present participle grocering, simple past and past participle grocered)

1. (uncommon) To sell groceries; to act as a grocer.

English

Etymology

From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin veget?bilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from veget?re (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?d???t?b?l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?v?d???t?b?l/, /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?t??t?b?l/

Noun

vegetable (plural vegetables)

1. Any plant.
   • 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)

     That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.

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.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

3. The edible part of such a plant.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

4. (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

   Synonym: cabbage

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Adjective

vegetable (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to plants.
2. Of or relating to vegetables.

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Further reading

• vegetable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vegetable (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia