| Main Entry: | salad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dish of vegetables |
Synonyms: |
Waldorf salad, coleslaw, fruit salad, greens, mixed greens, potato salad, tossed salad |
| Main Entry: | miscellany |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | varied collection |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, aggregation, anthology, assortment, brew, collectanea, combination, combo, compilation, conglomeration, cumulation, diversity, farrago, gallimaufry, garbage*, hash, hodgepodge, jumble, medley, melee, mess, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mixture, muddle, mélange, odds and ends, olio, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, salad, salmagundi, smorgasbord, stew, variety |
Antonyms: |
single |
| Main Entry: | patchwork |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mixture, hodgepodge |
Synonyms: |
check, confusion, disorder, hash, jumble, medley, miscellany, mishmash, muddle, olio, pastiche, plaid, salad, salmagundi, stew, tartan |
| Main Entry: | vegetable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible part of plant |
Synonyms: |
edible, green, greens, herb, herbaceous plant, legume, produce, root, salad, truck, yellow |
| Notes: | fruit is the name given to those plants which have an ovary used for food; vegetable is the name given to a large category of herbaceous plants with parts used for food |
| Main Entry: | salmagundi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | miscellany |
Synonyms: |
assortment, hash, hodgepodge, jumble, medley, mishmash, mixture, potpourri, salad |
| Concept: | Vegetable. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure., plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass., annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic., timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte [U.S.].; arboretum., bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia., foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella; spray; leaf., flower, blossom, bine; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.
-adjectives
vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous; herbaceous, herbal; botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; bosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.
-phrases
"green-robed senators of mighty woods" [Keats]; "this is the forest primeval" [Longfellow].
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