Definition of vegetable

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Vegetable (v.) Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

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Cormus :: Cormus (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached..
Gravy :: Gravy (n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc..
Haricot :: Haricot (n.) The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots..
Coster :: Coster (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc..
Vegetable :: Vegetable (v.) Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc..
Fodder :: Fodder (n.) That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc..
Soupe-maigre :: Soupe-maigre (n.) Soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.
Malaria :: Malaria (n.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals..
Scurvy :: Scurvy (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It
Nucleoidioplasma :: Nucleoidioplasma (n.) Hyaline plasma contained in the nucleus of vegetable cells.
Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
Gonococcus :: Gonococcus (n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease..
Amandine :: Amandine (n.) The vegetable casein of almonds.
Vegetive :: Vegetive (n.) A vegetable.
Margarin :: Margarin (n.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin..
Ptomaine :: Ptomaine (n.) One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines..
Chutnee :: Chutnee (n.) A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc..
Phytelephas :: Phytelephas (n.) A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory..
Carbonize :: Carbonize (v. t.) To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
Vegetation :: Vegetation (n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation..
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