vegetable
/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ nom A1En français : végétal, légume
- A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed.
- The edible part of such a plant.
- A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
- A mine (explosive device).
Pluriel vegetables
Dans la bibliothèque
He had a remarkably fine garden, full of vegetables, flowers, and fruit.
From amongst these vegetables he selected the most simple—a cabbage, for instance.
He then took the cabbage to the room where he had rabbits—for the Abbé Adelmonte had a collection of rabbits, cats, and guinea-pigs, fully as fine as his collection of vegetables, flowers, and fruit.
There were neat fences at the sides of the road, painted a dainty blue color, and beyond them were fields of grain and vegetables in abundance.
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