vegetable

Meanings

Noun

edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
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
Any plant.
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.
The edible part of such a plant.
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.
A mine (explosive device).

Adj

Of or relating to plants.
Of or relating to vegetables.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett.
Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.

Synonyms

cabbage, veg, vegetable, veggie

Scrabble Score: 15

vegetable is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
vegetable is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vegetable is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 19

vegetable is a valid Words With Friends word