vegetable
Roget category 367
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Vegetable
noun
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.
adjective
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.
phrase
green-robed senators of mighty woods"
[Keats];
this is the forest primeval"
[Longfellow].
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