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.

A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products. / An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses). / Without meat. / Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat. / That does not eat meat.

The practice of following a vegetarian diet.

(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.

A condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without awareness.

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.

(chiefly Britain) the marrow squash