vegetable

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A plant or part of a plant, such as a carrot or potato, that is eaten as food.

   Eating plenty of fresh vegetables is good for your health.

2. 2
   adj

   Made from or relating to plants.

   She fried the onions in a little vegetable oil.

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, whence modern wort and ovest. Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.

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