| 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 |
| 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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| Main Entry: | groceries |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
Synonyms: |
comestibles, edibles, foodstuffs, perishables, produce, staples, vegetables, viands |
| Main Entry: | vegetation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plant life |
Synonyms: |
crops, flora, flowers, grasses, greenery, herbage, herbs, plants, saplings, shrubs, trees, vegetables, verdure |