Vegitable vs. Vegetable: What's the Difference?
Edited by Huma Saeed || By Sawaira Riaz || Updated on November 11, 2023
"Vegitable" is an incorrect spelling. The proper spelling is "Vegetable," referring to a plant or part of a plant used as food.
Which is correct: Vegitable or Vegetable
How to spell Vegetable?
Vegitable is Incorrect
Vegetable is Correct
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Key Differences
Remember "table" at the end, as you eat vegetables on a table.
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Nov 10, 2023
Visualize a garden "able" to grow various plants.
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Link the word to "vegan," focusing on the "vege" part.
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Think of "vegetation," which is related and correctly spelled.
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Nov 10, 2023
Associate the word with the phrase "edible vegetation," highlighting the "veget" part.
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Vegitable and Vegetable Definitions
Vegetable
A vegetable is any edible plant or part of a plant.
Carrots are a popular vegetable.
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Vegetable
As an adjective, vegetable denotes something derived from plants.
She uses vegetable oil for cooking.
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Sep 13, 2023
Vegetable
The word vegetable refers to plant foods excluding fruits and grains.
Green leafy vegetables are rich in nutrients.
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Sep 13, 2023
Vegetable
It can indicate a person with impaired brain function or in a vegetative state.
After the accident, he became a vegetable.
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Sep 13, 2023
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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.
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Vegetable
Offensive Slang One who is severely impaired mentally and physically, as by brain injury or disease.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vegetable
Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
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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
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Vegetable
Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants;
Decaying vegetable matter
A mineral deposit
Mineral water
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Vegetable
It refers to the category of foods emphasizing plants.
My diet consists mostly of vegetables.
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Sep 13, 2023
FAQs
Which vowel is used before Vegetable?
The vowel "a" is used before the last syllable.
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Which conjunction is used with Vegetable?
Standard conjunctions like "and," "but," or "or" can be used.
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What is the root word of Vegetable?
The root word is "veget," derived from Latin "vegetare" meaning "to enliven."
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Why is it called Vegetable?
Derived from Latin "vegetabilis" meaning "growing, flourishing," related to plants and growth.
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Which article is used with Vegetable?
Either "the" or "a" can be used depending on context.
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Is Vegetable a countable noun?
Yes, when referring to types or pieces: e.g., "three vegetables."
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Nov 10, 2023
Which preposition is used with Vegetable?
Prepositions like "of," "with," and "in" can be used depending on context.
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Is Vegetable a negative or positive word?
Neutral, but can be negative when referring to a person in a vegetative state.
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Nov 10, 2023
Is Vegetable a vowel or consonant?
It's a word, not a letter. However, it starts with a consonant.
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Nov 10, 2023
Is Vegetable a noun or adjective?
Vegetable can be both a noun and an adjective.
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Is the Vegetable term a metaphor?
Only when referring to a person in a vegetative state.
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What is a stressed syllable in Vegetable?
The first syllable, "veg," is stressed.
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What is the opposite of Vegetable?
In terms of food groups, "meat" or "animal products" can be considered opposites.
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Which determiner is used with Vegetable?
Determiners like "the," "some," "many," and "few" can be used.
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Nov 10, 2023
What is the second form of Vegetable?
The term "vegetable" doesn't have verb forms.
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Nov 10, 2023
Is Vegetable an abstract noun?
No, it's a concrete noun when referring to plant food and can be abstract when referring to a person in a vegetative state.
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Nov 10, 2023
What is the third form of Vegetable?
Same as above; "vegetable" doesn't have verb forms.
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How is Vegetable used in a sentence?
She added several fresh vegetables to her salad.
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