Definition of vegetable

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Vegetable (v.) Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

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Plasma :: Plasma (n.) The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm..
Neuter :: Neuter (n.) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers..
Spice :: Spice (n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc..
Climate :: Climate (v. i.) The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life..
Cilia :: Cilia (n. pl.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs..
Grow :: Grow (v. i.) To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
Gliadin :: Gliadin (n.) Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin..
Phanerogamia :: Phanerogamia (n. pl.) That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants..
Kail :: Kail (n.) Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables..
Humic :: Humic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin..
Monesia :: Monesia (n.) The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and astringent..
Cyclosis :: Cyclosis (n.) The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.
Flavin :: Flavin (n.) A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron..
Brucine :: Brucine (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina..
Vascular :: Vascular (a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions..
Monopodium :: Monopodium (n.) A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.
Budding :: Budding (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea..
Windiness :: Windiness (n.) Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables..
Conglutin :: Conglutin (n.) A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc..
Coccobacterium :: Coccobacterium (n.) One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter..
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