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Adjective vegetable has 1 sense
  1. vegetable - of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants; "decaying vegetable matter"
    Antonyms:     mineral, asphaltic, petrified, mineralized, animal, animallike, birdlike, cranelike, fishlike, horselike, insectlike
,Noun vegetable has 2 senses
  1. vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
    --1 is a kind of produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck
    --1 is a part of herb, herbaceous plant
    --1 has particulars:
     raw vegetable, rabbit food; legume; potherb; greens, green, leafy vegetable; solanaceous vegetable; root vegetable; pieplant, rhubarb; cruciferous vegetable; squash; cucumber, cuke; artichoke, globe artichoke; artichoke heart; asparagus; bamboo shoot; onion; leek; cardoon; celery; gumbo, okra; mushroom; pumpkin; truffle, earthnut; plantain; fennel, Florence fennel, finocchio
  2. vegetable - any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
    --2 is a kind of     herb, herbaceous plant
    --2 has particulars:
     beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris; spinach, spinach plant, prickly-seeded spinach, Spinacia oleracea; artichoke, globe artichoke, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus; cardoon, Cynara cardunculus
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