vegetable

noun

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

edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Roots

vegetareveget- · Latin · enliven, grow

Synonyms for vegetable

cauliflowern broccolin cabbagen kalen kohlrabin spinachn asparagusn lettucen beetn eggplantn

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Where does vegetable come from?

The word vegetable breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root veget-, from Latin vegetare (“enliven, grow”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.