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vegetable

noun as in edible part of plant

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Kanukollu, 26, said that unlike other vertical farming models, which only grow lettuce and basil, UrbanKisaan has devised technology to grow over 50 varieties of vegetables.

So even as the average flow of the Colorado River — the water supply for 40 million Western Americans and the backbone of the nation’s vegetable and cattle farming — has declined for most of the last 33 years, the population of Nevada has doubled.

It was rejecting the microwave dinners and canned vegetables of your foreparents, making double stock from leftover roast chickens instead of buying broth in a carton, and eschewing pre-cut fruit and instant rice.

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You drive to the allotment and attend to your flowers and vegetables.

An 850-watt motor powers through hard veggies like carrots, while the two-speed control knob slows things down for softer fruits and vegetables.

Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.

The stewed cabbage is insanely tender, vegetable-sweet, and more luxurious than cabbage has a right to be.

Traffic was terrible, though, so only a few dozen people gamely remained to pick over the vegetable spread and drink beer.

Poking through this crunchy-sweet vegetable mound is edible ecstasy.

The truth is that diet should be varied and no single vegetable produces “miracle” results.

Grain merchants and vegetable dealers jostled each other in the streets themselves.

Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.

Even slight familiarity with the microscopic structure of vegetable tissue will prevent the chagrin of such errors.

It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps.

It is produced abundantly when vegetable matters are burnt, as also during respiration, fermentation, and many other processes.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vegetable, such as: herb, legume, produce, salad, edible, and green.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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