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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It takes a lot more energy to produce each calorie you can get from meat than the calories you can get from vegetables, and this shows up in prices.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
Not as a grim exercise in virtue, but because I want the vegetables to be things I actually look forward to eating.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Yet, the return of calm masks a new sense of unease among the residents of this agricultural region -- one of the country’s primary producers of lettuce and other vegetables.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Iron can also be obtained naturally from foods including meat, beans, lentils, leafy green vegetables and fortified cereals.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Of course it does, niña. The vegetables were pulled out of the earth this morning.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
