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vegetable
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)
- 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.
- 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)
- 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
- The edible part of such a plant.
- Synonyms: veg, veggie
- (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)
- Of or relating to plants.
- Of or relating to vegetables.
Translations
Further reading
- vegetable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- vegetable (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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crops
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?ps, IPA(key): /k??ps/
- (General American) enPR: kr?ps, IPA(key): /k??ps/
- Rhymes: -?ps
Noun
crops
- plural of crop
Verb
crops
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crop
Anagrams
- S corp., corps, corps., procs, scorp, sproc
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