vegetable
noun
any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
vegetables
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pluralof vegetable.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Prices of cereals, edible oils and vegetables likely added to inflation pressures, while easing precious-metals prices and delays in passing through fuel-price changes to consumers provided some relief, the bank said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
I love tossing it with cubetti pasta, peas and canned white beans for a quick pasta salad, but it’s also fantastic smeared on sourdough toast and piled with olive oil-marinated vegetables.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Into the bowls went noodles, broth, chicken, vegetables and roasted toppings, along with soy sauce eggs I’d marinated earlier that day.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
I love serving them over rice with whatever vegetables I have waiting in the freezer, perhaps some steamed edamame, corn and shredded cabbage.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
There were the little kids playing hide-and-seek between the pushcarts piled high with fruits and vegetables.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
