Thesaurus:vegetable

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vegetable

English

Noun

Sense: a plant raised for some edible part of it other than a sweet fruit or seed

Synonyms

• vegetable

Hyponyms

• legume    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bean
• beet
• broccoli
• cabbage
• carrot
• celery
• garlic
• lentil
• tomato
• onion
• paprika
• pea
• potato
• radish
• spinach
• tomato (see tomato § Fruit versus vegetable)
• zucchini

Hypernyms

• plant    [⇒ thesaurus]
• food    [⇒ thesaurus]

Coordinate terms

• fruit    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Category:Vegetables

Further reading

• “vegetable” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “vegetable” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.