different between herbage vs vegetable

English

Etymology

From Middle English erbage, from Middle French herbage and Old French erbage, from Medieval Latin herbaticum, from Latin herba (“grass”); alternatively, herb +? -age.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??b?d?/

Noun

herbage (usually uncountable, plural herbages)

1. Herbs collectively.
2. Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
   • 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:

     I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 97:

     The dank breath of herbage, sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.

3. The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
4. (law) The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).

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French

Etymology

From Old French erbage, from Medieval Latin herb?ticum, from Latin herba (“grass”); equivalent to herbe +? -age.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /??.ba?/

Noun

herbage m (plural herbages)

1. pasture

Related terms

• herbe

Further reading

• “herbage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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