Definition of vegetable

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Vegetable (v.) Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division..

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Cyclosis :: Cyclosis (n.) The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.
Pulp :: Pulp (n.) A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter..
Neuter :: Neuter (n.) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers..
Monopodium :: Monopodium (n.) A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.
Colloid :: Colloid (n.) A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid..
Apothem :: Apothem (n.) A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.
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..
Preservatory :: Preservatory (n.) A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay..
Vegetable :: Vegetable (v.) Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom..
General :: General (a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy..
Dermatophyte :: Dermatophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin..
Plant :: Plant (n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule..
Favus :: Favus (n.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite..
Bud :: Bud (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra..
Nitrification :: Nitrification (n.) A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates..
Vegetal :: Vegetal (n.) A vegetable.
Molasses :: Molasses (n.) The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle..
Green-stall :: Green-stall (n.) A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
Elaboration :: Elaboration (n.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues..
Epiphyte :: Epiphyte (n.) A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.
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