Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vegetable.
- noun A vegetarian.
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- noun informal A
vegetable . - noun informal A
vegetarian . - adjective informal
vegetarian ; suitable forvegetarians - adjective Vegetable-like.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
Etymologies
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Examples
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Put in veggie broth or chicken broth, fish, scallops, crab.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway papersky 2009
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I don't want to come off as a touf-eating pasifist, (my favorite veggie is chicken), but it is a very Zen/Taoist thing to clear your mind and just let the arrow hit the target.
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The next veggie is a poised and pretty, long strands of green blending into white ...
Archive 2007-05-01 Nupur 2007
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VELSHI: That is so open-minded of her because Lisa and I have this conversation everyday about eating more healthfully and treating my body better, which is why I called her veggie burger earlier.
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I love their almost creaminess - I much prefer them in veggie chili to red kidney beans.
Uncle Albert, Juneteenth and lima beans | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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And with bird Flu coming our way too, veggie is the way to go ... thnks for mentioning ...
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Another important "V" veggie is vatana or green peas.
Archive 2006-02-01 Nupur 2006
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Even the cleaning staff were happy to do their part by bringing in veggie sandwiches for lunch.’
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We're talking about spinach, we're talking about a snack product called veggie booty, we're talking about peanut butter.
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Carotenoids, vitamin C, potassium and fiber are just a few of the benefits of eating this savory-sweet veggie, which is ranked among the highest vegetables on the nutrition scale.
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