Definition of vegetable

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Vegetable (v.) Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division..

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Holophytic :: Holophytic (a.) Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
Dissecting :: Dissecting (a.) Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery..
Coccobacterium :: Coccobacterium (n.) One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter..
Casserole :: Casserole (n.) A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat..
Petrify :: Petrify (v. t.) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance..
Decayed :: Decayed (a.) Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman..
Pectin :: Pectin (n.) One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling..
Drug :: Drug (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations..
Coster :: Coster (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc..
Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic..
Hastings :: Hastings (v.) Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease..
Mule :: Mule (n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
Garden :: Garden (n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables..
Germination :: Germination (n.) The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable..
Vegetality :: Vegetality (n.) The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable..
Nucleoidioplasma :: Nucleoidioplasma (n.) Hyaline plasma contained in the nucleus of vegetable cells.
Protoorganism :: Protoorganism (n.) An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
Colloid :: Colloid (n.) A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid..
Truck :: Truck (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market..
Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
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