Any plant. / 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.

Of or relating to plants. / Of or relating to vegetables.

plural of vegetable

(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively. / (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth / The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

(of a plant) To grow or sprout. / (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally. / (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.

Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth. / (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction. / Physically inactive.

(now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). / Pertaining to vegetables or plants.

(obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.

(obsolete) lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vegetate