Vegetable
noun
A plant or part of a plant used as food, usually eaten with savory meals.
She prepared a dish with a variety of colorful vegetables.
Often appears as...
- stir-fry vegetables
- raw vegetables
adjective
Relating to plants and vegetables in particular.
He was a strict vegetarian and only ate vegetable dishes.
Often appears as...
- vegetable garden
- vegetable oil
noun
A person who is not active or cannot react or communicate due to illness or disability.
After the accident, he remained in a vegetable state.
Often appears as...
- in a vegetable state
- turn into a vegetable
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Figurative
noun
A plant or part of a plant used as food, usually eaten with savory meals.
She prepared a dish with a variety of colorful vegetables.
Often appears as...
- stir-fry vegetables
- raw vegetables
adjective
Relating to plants and vegetables in particular.
He was a strict vegetarian and only ate vegetable dishes.
Often appears as...
- vegetable garden
- vegetable oil
noun
A person who is not active or cannot react or communicate due to illness or disability.
After the accident, he remained in a vegetable state.
Often appears as...
- in a vegetable state
- turn into a vegetable
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Figurative
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Savory Context
Vegetable typically refers to edible plants when discussing meal ingredients, sides or salads.
She added more vegetables to make the stew healthier.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Greens
While often green, 'vegetable' encompasses a rainbow of colors, like peppers, carrots, and eggplants.
Let's roast an assortment of vegetables for dinner.
Pro Tip 3/3Culinary Variety
'Vegetable' can refer to any edible plant part: roots, stems, leaves, or flowers.
The recipe calls for root vegetables like carrots and potatoes.
Pro Tip 1/3Savory Context
Vegetable typically refers to edible plants when discussing meal ingredients, sides or salads.
She added more vegetables to make the stew healthier.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Greens
While often green, 'vegetable' encompasses a rainbow of colors, like peppers, carrots, and eggplants.
Let's roast an assortment of vegetables for dinner.
Pro Tip 3/3Culinary Variety
'Vegetable' can refer to any edible plant part: roots, stems, leaves, or flowers.
The recipe calls for root vegetables like carrots and potatoes.
Pro Tip 1/3Savory Context
Vegetable typically refers to edible plants when discussing meal ingredients, sides or salads.
She added more vegetables to make the stew healthier.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Greens
While often green, 'vegetable' encompasses a rainbow of colors, like peppers, carrots, and eggplants.
Let's roast an assortment of vegetables for dinner.
Pro Tip 3/3Culinary Variety
'Vegetable' can refer to any edible plant part: roots, stems, leaves, or flowers.
The recipe calls for root vegetables like carrots and potatoes.
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Are spotty fruits and...
can hitch a ride on vegetables, too. But because they're not plant pathogens, they don't typically cause spots. They just hang out invisibly on the surface. So it's washing fruit and veggies, not avoiding the spotty ones, that will help you avoid getting sick. So the next time you're at the grocery store, don't be afraid to pick up funky-looking fruit.
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What happens during a...
Lots of fiber from vegetables, chicken and fish instead of red meat, whole grains and nuts like walnuts and almonds all seem to be beneficial. A good diet and exercise plan can also keep your weight in a healthy range, which will lower your heart attack risk as well. And of course, medications can also help prevent heart attacks.
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Jonathan Foley: The...
Instead, we want to feed them more vegetable proteins. So soybeans have really exploded, showing how trade and globalization are really responsible for the connections to rainforests and the Amazon -- an incredibly strange and interconnected world that we have today. Well, again and again, what we find as we look
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4 Adorable Animals That...
and that lays of studies have shown that actually the fruit they eat in the world is the same sugar content of the vegetables that we have here so if we do give them fruit it's the equivalent to giving them like loads of sugar and sweets so what we've done is we just feed them on vegetables now because it's
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Adorable Baby Animal...
looking for human baby formulas that had vegetable oils rather than cow's milk fat and then we were on the right track 30 years of research and dedication paid off the success rate with orphans has soared and has paid dividends for mutora who would almost certainly have died but for
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Are food preservatives...
For example, making the food more acidic unravels enzymes that microbes need to survive. And some types of bacteria can actually help. For thousands of years, people preserved food using bacteria that produce lactic acid. The acid turns perishable vegetables and milk
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How do carbohydrates...
the amount that a particular food raises the sugar level in your blood. Soda and white bread have a similar glycemic index because they have a similar effect on your blood sugar. But when you eat foods high in fiber, like vegetables, fruits, and whole grains,
Video examples
An eco-modernist...
associate being environmentally friendly with things like recycling driving hybrid cars and consuming less that's certainly how I used to think I was raised on a goat farm where we grew our own vegetables and heated with wood in
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How the food you eat...
Like the other organs in our bodies, our brains also benefit from a steady supply of micronutrients. Antioxidants in fruits and vegetables strengthen the brain to fight off free radicals that destroy brain cells,
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A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...
spoon delicious it is made of dough are blended with rice and wheat without preservatives just like dehydrated vegetables our product also has a very long shelf life or more than three years
Video examples
Are spotty fruits and...
can hitch a ride on vegetables, too. But because they're not plant pathogens, they don't typically cause spots. They just hang out invisibly on the surface. So it's washing fruit and veggies, not avoiding the spotty ones, that will help you avoid getting sick. So the next time you're at the grocery store, don't be afraid to pick up funky-looking fruit.
Video examples
What happens during a...
Lots of fiber from vegetables, chicken and fish instead of red meat, whole grains and nuts like walnuts and almonds all seem to be beneficial. A good diet and exercise plan can also keep your weight in a healthy range, which will lower your heart attack risk as well. And of course, medications can also help prevent heart attacks.
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
Instead, we want to feed them more vegetable proteins. So soybeans have really exploded, showing how trade and globalization are really responsible for the connections to rainforests and the Amazon -- an incredibly strange and interconnected world that we have today. Well, again and again, what we find as we look
Video examples
4 Adorable Animals That...
and that lays of studies have shown that actually the fruit they eat in the world is the same sugar content of the vegetables that we have here so if we do give them fruit it's the equivalent to giving them like loads of sugar and sweets so what we've done is we just feed them on vegetables now because it's
Video examples
Adorable Baby Animal...
looking for human baby formulas that had vegetable oils rather than cow's milk fat and then we were on the right track 30 years of research and dedication paid off the success rate with orphans has soared and has paid dividends for mutora who would almost certainly have died but for
Video examples
Are food preservatives...
For example, making the food more acidic unravels enzymes that microbes need to survive. And some types of bacteria can actually help. For thousands of years, people preserved food using bacteria that produce lactic acid. The acid turns perishable vegetables and milk
Video examples
How do carbohydrates...
the amount that a particular food raises the sugar level in your blood. Soda and white bread have a similar glycemic index because they have a similar effect on your blood sugar. But when you eat foods high in fiber, like vegetables, fruits, and whole grains,
Video examples
An eco-modernist...
associate being environmentally friendly with things like recycling driving hybrid cars and consuming less that's certainly how I used to think I was raised on a goat farm where we grew our own vegetables and heated with wood in
Video examples
How the food you eat...
Like the other organs in our bodies, our brains also benefit from a steady supply of micronutrients. Antioxidants in fruits and vegetables strengthen the brain to fight off free radicals that destroy brain cells,
Video examples
A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...
spoon delicious it is made of dough are blended with rice and wheat without preservatives just like dehydrated vegetables our product also has a very long shelf life or more than three years
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Quote examples
Kim Alexis
American Model
I feel an important part of beauty is not only what you do on the outside but also what you put into the inside. Good fresh food with many vegetables along with love and caring for others. I spend way more time serving others than I do on my beauty routine daily.
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Parker Posey
American Actress
When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
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Eric Ripert
French Chef
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
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Siri Hustvedt
American Novelist
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.
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Glen Hansard
Irish Musician
My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.
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Linford Christie
British Athlete
Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.
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Kina Grannis
American Musician
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
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Jennie Garth
American Actress
My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.
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William Blake
English Poet
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
I do support people eating more vegetables. It's a good thing to do.
Quote examples
Kim Alexis
American Model
I feel an important part of beauty is not only what you do on the outside but also what you put into the inside. Good fresh food with many vegetables along with love and caring for others. I spend way more time serving others than I do on my beauty routine daily.
Quote examples
Parker Posey
American Actress
When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
Quote examples
Eric Ripert
French Chef
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
Quote examples
Siri Hustvedt
American Novelist
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.
Quote examples
Glen Hansard
Irish Musician
My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.
Quote examples
Linford Christie
British Athlete
Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.
Quote examples
Kina Grannis
American Musician
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
Quote examples
Jennie Garth
American Actress
My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.
Quote examples
William Blake
English Poet
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
Quote examples
Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
I do support people eating more vegetables. It's a good thing to do.
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