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Vegetable and Salad Definitions

Vegetable

A plant cultivated for its edible parts, such as the roots of the beet, the leaves of spinach, the flower buds of broccoli, or the fruit or seeds of certain species, as beans, corn, and squash.

Salad

A dish of raw leafy green vegetables, often tossed with pieces of other raw or cooked vegetables, fruit, cheese, or other ingredients and served with a dressing.

Vegetable

The edible part of such a plant.

Salad

The course of a meal consisting of this dish.

Vegetable

A member of the vegetable kingdom, especially a green plant.

Salad

A cold dish of chopped vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, eggs, or other food, usually prepared with a dressing, such as mayonnaise.
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Vegetable

Offensive Slang One who is severely impaired mentally and physically, as by brain injury or disease.

Salad

A green vegetable or herb used in salad, especially lettuce.

Vegetable

Of, relating to, or derived from plants or a plant
Vegetable dyes.

Salad

A varied mixture
"The Declaration of Independence was ... a salad of illusions" (George Santayana).

Vegetable

Made from or with edible plants or plant parts
Vegetable lasagna.

Salad

A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
Chicken salad
We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
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Vegetable

Growing or reproducing like a plant.

Salad

A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

Vegetable

Any plant.

Salad

(idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.

Vegetable

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.

Salad

A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.
Leaves eaten raw are termed salad.
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Vegetable

The edible part of such a plant.

Salad

A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.

Vegetable

A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

Salad

Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens

Vegetable

Of or relating to plants.

Vegetable

Of or relating to vegetables.

Vegetable

Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
Blooming ambrosial fruitOf vegetable gold.

Vegetable

Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.

Vegetable

Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

Vegetable

A plant. See Plant.

Vegetable

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.

Vegetable

A person who has permanently lost consciousness, due to damage to the brain, but remains alive; sometimes continued life requires support by machinery such as breathing tubes. Such a person is said to be in a vegetative state.

Vegetable

Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Vegetable

Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower

Vegetable

Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants;
Decaying vegetable matter
A mineral deposit
Mineral water

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