vegetable
noun
1 vegetable
Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant.
synonyms: veg, veggie.
Roget 367:
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 [Sp.],
chaparal,
motte [U.S.];
arboretum
etc.
371.
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
etc.
51;
leaf.
flower,
blossom,
bine†;
flowering plant;
timber tree,
fruit tree;
pulse,
legume.
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Roget 452:
incogitancy†,
vacancy,
inunderstanding†;
fatuity
etc.
499;
thoughtlessness
etc.
(inattention)
458;
vacuity.
couch potato,
vegetable.
Roget 359:
life,
vitality,
viability;
animation;
vital spark,
vital flame,
soul,
spirit.
respiration,
wind;
breath of life,
breath of one's nostrils;
oxygen,
air.
[devices to sustain respiration]
respirator,
artificial respirator,
heart and lung machine,
iron lung;
medical devices
etc.
662.
lifeblood;
Archeus†;
existence
etc.
1.
vivification;
vital force;
vitalization;
revivification
etc.
163;
Prometheus;
life to come
etc.
(destiny)
152.
[Science of life]
physiology,
biology;
animal ecology.
nourishment,
staff of life
etc.
(food)
298.
genetics,
heredity,
inheritance,
evolution,
natural selection,
reproduction
(production)
161.
microbe,
aerobe,
anaerobe,
facultative anaerobe,
obligate aerobe,
obligate anaerobe,
halophile [Micro.],
methanogen [Micro.],
archaebacteria [Micro.],
microaerophile [Micro.].
animal
etc.
366;
vegetable
etc.
367.
artificial life,
robot,
robotics,
artificial intelligence.
[vital signs]
breathing,
breathing rate,
heartbeat,
pulse,
temperature.
preservation of life,
healing
(medicine)
662.
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Roget 450a:
absence of intellect,
want of intellect
etc.
450;
imbecility
etc.
499.
brutality,
brute force.
instinct,
brute instinct,
stimulus-response loop,
conditioned response,
instinctive reaction,
Pavlovian response.
mimicry,
aping
(imitation)
19.
moron,
imbecile,
idiot;
fool
etc.
501;
dumb animal;
vegetable,
brain dead.
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Dutch: groente
Polish: warzywo, jarzyna
2 vegetable
Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
Dutch: plant, gewas, groente
Polish: warzywo
adjective
Roget 367:
vegetable,
vegetal,
vegetive†,
vegitous†;
herbaceous,
herbal;
botanic†;
sylvan,
silvan†;
arborary†,
arboreous†,
arborescent†,
arborical†;
woody,
grassy;
verdant,
verdurous;
floral,
mossy;
lignous†,
ligneous;
wooden,
leguminous;
vosky†,
cespitose†,
turf-like,
turfy;
endogenous,
exogenous.
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Roget 365:
rank,
lush;
vegetable,
vegetal,
vegetive†.
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