1. vegetable - Noun
2. vegetable - Adjective
Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
A plant. See Plant.
A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAn onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. Will Rogers
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Ambrose Bierce
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Gertrude Stein
Every vegetable has its time. Russian Proverb
If neither animal nor vegetable you be, then mineral you are. Japanese Proverb
If neither animal nor vegetable you be, then mineral you are. If one finger brought oil it soiled others. Nigerian Proverb