Definitions
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
Word origin
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, whence modern wort and ovest.
Used in a sentence
“That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.”
“This substance is vegetable, not mineral.”
“On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues
01“Carrot or pea”9 letters
02“Carrot or broccoli”9 letters
03“Edible garden plant”9 letters
04“Produce served with dinner”9 letters
05“Savory garden crop”9 letters
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