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Meaning of 'vegetable' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Vegetable [ n.]
- 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.
2 . Vegetable [ v.]
- 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.

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