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vegetable

N ผัก  พืชผัก  veggie plant pak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VEGETABLE

n.[L. vigeo, to grow. ] 1. A plant; an organized body destitute of sense and voluntary motion, deriving its nourishment through pores or vessels on its outer surface, in most instances adhering to some other body, as the earth, and in general, propagating itself by seeds. some vegetables have spontaneous motion, as the sunflower. Vegetables alone have the power of deriving nourishment from inorganic matter, or organic matter entirely decomposed.
2. In a more limited sense, vegetables are such plants as are used for culinary purposes and cultivated in gardens, or are destined for feeding cattle and sheep. Vegetables for these uses are such as are of a more soft and fleshy substance than trees and shrubs; such as cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, potatoes, peas, beans, etc.

 

VEGETABLE

a. 1. Belonging to plants; as a vegetable nature; vegetable qualities; vegetable juices.
2. Consisting of plants; as the vegetable kingdom.
3. having the nature of plants; as a vegetable body.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

VEGETABLE

Veg `e *ta *ble, a. Etym: [F. végétable growing, capable of growing, formerly also, as a noun, a vegetable, from L. vegetabilis enlivening, from vegetare to enliven, invigorate, quicken, vegetus enlivened, vigorous, active, vegere to quicken, arouse, to be lively, akin to vigere to be lively, to thrive, vigil watchful, awake, and probably to E. wake, v. See Vigil, Wake, v.]

 

1. Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc. Blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold. Milton.

 

2. Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom. Vegetable alkali (Chem. ), an alkaloid. -- Vegetable brimstone. (Bot. ) See Vegetable sulphur, below. -- Vegetable butter (Bot. ), a name of several kinds of concrete vegetable oil; as that produced by the Indian butter tree, the African shea tree, and the Pentadesma butyracea, a tree of the order Guttiferæ, also African. Still another kind is pressed from the seeds of cocoa (Theobroma ). -- Vegetable flannel, a textile material, manufactured in Germany from pine-needle wool, a down or fiber obtained from the leaves of the Pinus sylvestris. -- Vegetable ivory. See Ivory nut, under Ivory. -- Vegetable jelly. See Pectin. -- Vegetable kingdom. (Nat. Hist. ) See the last Phrase, below. --

 

Vegetable leather. (a ) (Bot. ) A shrubby West Indian spurge (Euphorbia punicea ), with leathery foliage and crimson bracts. (b ) See Vegetable leather, under Leather. -- Vegetable marrow (Bot. ), an egg-shaped gourd, commonly eight to ten inches long. It is noted for the very tender quality of its flesh, and is a favorite culinary vegetable in England. It has been said to be of Persian origin, but is now thought to have been derived from a form of the American pumpkin. -- Vegetable oyster (Bot. ), the oyster plant. See under Oyster. -- Vegetable parchment, papyrine. -- Vegetable sheep (Bot. ), a white woolly plant (Raoulia eximia ) of New Zealand, which grows in the form of large fleecy cushions on the mountains. -- Vegetable silk, a cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree (Chorisia speciosa ). It us used for various purposes, as for stuffing, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers. -- Vegetable sponge. See 1st Loof. -- Vegetable sulphur, the fine highly inflammable spores of the club moss (Lycopodium clavatum ); witch. -- Vegetable tallow, a substance resembling tallow, obtained from various plants; as, Chinese vegetable tallow, obtained from the seeds of the tallow tree. Indian vegetable tallow is a name sometimes given to piney tallow. -- Vegetable wax, a waxy excretion on the leaves or fruits of certain plants, as the bayberry. Vegetable kingdom (Nat. Hist. ), that primary division of living things which includes all plants. The classes of the vegetable kingdom have been grouped differently by various botanists. The following is one of the best of the many arrangements of the principal subdivisions. I. Phænogamia (called also Phanerogamia ).

 

Defn: Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. { 1. Dicotyledons (called also Exogens ). -- Seeds with two or more cotyledons. Stems with the pith, woody fiber, and bark concentrically arranged. Divided into two subclasses:Angiosperms, having the woody fiber interspersed with dotted or annular ducts, and the seed contained in a true ovary; Gymnosperms, having few or no ducts in the woody fiber, and the seeds naked. 2. Monocotyledons (called also Endogens ). -- Seeds with single cotyledon. Stems with slender bundles of woody fiber not concentrically arranged, and with no true bark. } II. Cryptogamia.

 

Defn: Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division. { 1. Acrogens. -- Plants usually with distinct stems and leaves, existing in two alternate conditions, one of which is nonsexual and sporophoric, the other sexual and oöphoric. Divided into Vascular Acrogens, or Pteridophyta, having the sporophoric plant conspicuous and consisting partly of vascular tissue, as in Ferns, Lycopods, and Equiseta, and Cellular Acrogens, or Bryophyta, having the sexual plant most conspicuous, but destitute of vascular tissue, as in Mosses and Scale Mosses. 2. Thallogens. -- Plants without distinct stem and leaves, consisting of a simple or branched mass of cellular tissue, or educed to a single cell. Reproduction effected variously. Divided into Algæ, which contain chlorophyll or its equivalent, and which live upon air and water, and Fungi, which contain no chlorophyll, and live on organic matter. (Lichens are now believed to be fungi parasitic on included algæ.}

 

Note: Many botanists divide the Phænogamia primarily into Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, and the latter into Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons. Others consider Pteridophyta and Bryophyta to be separate classes. Thallogens are variously divided by different writers, and the places for diatoms, slime molds, and stoneworts are altogether uncertain. For definitions, see these names in the Vocabulary.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

vegetable

veg e ta ble |ˈvejtəbəl, ˈvəjətə -ˈvɛʤtəbəl | ▶noun 1 a plant or part of a plant used as food, typically as accompaniment to meat or fish, such as a cabbage, potato, carrot, or bean. 2 informal, offensive a person who is incapable of normal mental or physical activity, esp. through brain damage. • informal a person with a dull or inactive life: I thought I'd sort of flop back and be a vegetable for a bit. ▶adjective [ attrib. ] of or relating to vegetables as food: a vegetable garden | vegetable soup. • of or relating to plants or plant life, esp. as distinct from animal life or mineral substances: vegetable matter. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘growing as a plant ’): from Old French, or from late Latin vegetabilis ‘animating, ’ from Latin vegetare (see vegetate ). The noun dates from the late 16th cent.

 

vegetable butter

veg e ta ble but ter ▶noun vegetable fat with the consistency of butter.

 

vegetable ivory

veg e ta ble i vo ry ▶noun a hard white material obtained from the endosperm of the ivory nut.

 

vegetable marrow

veg e ta ble mar row ▶noun see marrow ( sense 2 ).

 

vegetable oil

veg e ta ble oil |ˈvɛʤtəbəl | ▶noun an oil derived from plants, e.g., canola oil, olive oil, sunflower oil.

 

vegetable oyster

vege |table oys ¦ter ▶noun [ mass noun ] the edible root of salsify, the taste of which is said to resemble that of oysters.

 

vegetable sheep

veg e ta ble sheep ▶noun a New Zealand plant of the daisy family that has grayish hairy leaves and forms hummocks that from a distance look like sheep. [Raoulia eximia, family Compositae. ]

 

vegetable spaghetti

vege |table spa |ghetti ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. an edible squash of a variety with slightly stringy flesh which when cooked has a texture and appearance like that of spaghetti.

 

vegetable spaghetti

veg e ta ble spa ghet ti ▶noun another term for spaghetti squash.

 

vegetable sponge

veg e ta ble sponge ▶noun another term for loofah.

 

vegetable tallow

veg e ta ble tal low ▶noun vegetable fat used as tallow.

 

Oxford Dictionary

vegetable

vegetable |ˈvɛdʒtəb (ə )l, ˈvɛdʒɪtə -| ▶noun 1 a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, turnip, or bean. 2 informal, offensive a person who is incapable of normal mental or physical activity, especially through brain damage. • informal a person with a dull or inactive life: I thought I'd sort of flop back and be a vegetable for a bit. ▶adjective [ attrib. ] relating to vegetables as food: a vegetable garden | vegetable soup. • relating to plants or plant life, especially as distinct from animal life or mineral substances: decaying vegetable matter. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘growing as a plant ’): from Old French, or from late Latin vegetabilis ‘animating ’, from Latin vegetare (see vegetate ). The noun dates from the late 16th cent.

 

vegetable butter

veg e ta ble but ter ▶noun vegetable fat with the consistency of butter.

 

vegetable ivory

vege |table ivory ▶noun [ mass noun ] a hard white material obtained from the endosperm of the ivory nut.

 

vegetable marrow

vege |table mar ¦row ▶noun see marrow 1 ( sense 1 ).

 

vegetable oil

vege |table oil ▶noun [ mass noun ] an oil derived from plants, e.g. rapeseed oil, olive oil, sunflower oil.

 

vegetable oyster

vege |table oys ¦ter ▶noun [ mass noun ] the edible root of salsify, the taste of which is said to resemble that of oysters.

 

vegetable sheep

vege |table sheep ▶noun a New Zealand plant of the daisy family, which has greyish hairy leaves and forms hummocks which look like sheep from a distance. ●Raoulia eximia, family Compositae.

 

vegetable spaghetti

vege |table spa |ghetti ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. an edible squash of a variety with slightly stringy flesh which when cooked has a texture and appearance like that of spaghetti.

 

vegetable sponge

vege |table sponge ▶noun another term for loofah.

 

vegetable tallow

veg e ta ble tal low ▶noun vegetable fat used as tallow.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

vegetable

veg e ta ble /védʒ (ə )təb (ə )l /〖語源は 「元気づけるもの 」〗名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 C 〖通例 ～s 〗野菜 (｟くだけて 主に米 ｠veggie ); (調理された )温野菜 ▸ green vegetables (根菜類に対して )青物類 ▸ fresh vegetables 新鮮な野菜 ▸ grow [raise ] organic vegetables 有機野菜を栽培する ▸ boil vegetables in lightly salted water 薄い塩水で野菜をゆでる ▸ Try to eat vegetables with every meal .温野菜を毎食とるようにしなさい ▸ canned [｟英 ｠tinned ] vegetables 野菜の缶詰 .2 C ｟くだけて けなして ｠〖通例単数形で 〗(大脳の機能が停止した )植物人間 (｟英 ｠cabbage ).3 C 退屈な人生を送る人, 無気力人間 .4 U 〖具体例では 可算 〗植物, 草木 (plant )▸ animal, vegetable or mineral (対比させて )動物, 植物, 鉱物 .形容詞 比較なし ｟かたく ｠〖名詞 の前で 〗1 野菜の ; 植物 (性 )の (→vegetative )▸ a vegetable garden 菜園 ▸ a fruit and vegetable market 青果市場 ▸ vegetable dishes 野菜料理 ▸ vegetable oil 植物油 .2 退屈な, つまらない ; 単調な .～̀ br ú sh 野菜の泥落としブラシ .～̀ k í ngdom 〖the ～〗植物界 .～̀ m á rrow 〘植 〙ペポカボチャの総称 (｟米 ｠squash ) 〘カボチャ ズッキーニなど; 食用 飼料用 〙.