OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1876

vegetable

/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mata • planta • vegetable • vegetal
Any plant.
That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one. So with the second. The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwoo…
gulay • hortaliza • legumbre • vegetable • vegetal • verdolaga • verdura
A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
vegetal
A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
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