vegetable
US: /ˈvɛdʒtəbəɫ/
UK: /vˈɛdʒɪtəbəl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
vegetable /'vedʤitəbl/- tính từ
- (thực vật học) (thuộc) thực vật
- vegetable kingdom: giới thực vật
- vegetable physiology: sinh lý thực vật
- (thuộc) rau
- vegetable soup: xúp rau
- (thực vật học) (thuộc) thực vật
- danh từ
- rau
- green vegetable: rau xanh
- rau
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 (informal) (also veggie especially in AmE) a plant or part of a plant that is eaten as food. Potatoes, beans and onions are all vegetables: green vegetables (for example CABBAGE) + root vegetables (for example CARROTS) + a salad of raw vegetables + a vegetable garden / patch / plot + vegetable oils + vegetable matter (= plants in general)
Compare: ANIMAL, FRUIT, MINERAL
2 (BrE also cabbage) a person who is physically alive but not capable of much mental or physical activity, for example because of an accident or illness: Severe brain damage turned him into a vegetable.
3 a person who has a boring life: Since losing my job I've felt like a vegetable.
Collocation
ADJ.
green, leafy, root, salad
The children don't eat enough green vegetables.
| crisp
a salad of crisp, raw vegetables
| cooked, raw | fresh, frozen, tinned | organic | early, seasonal, spring, summer, winter | rotten
VERB + VEGETABLE
grow
They grow all their own vegetables.
| eat, have | boil, cook, overcook, parboil, steam, stir-fry | chop, peel, puree
VEGETABLE + NOUN
garden, patch, plot | market, stall | rack | crop | produce | dish, soup, stew, stock, terrine | fat, oil | protein | dye | fibre, matter
> Special page at FOOD
Concise dictionary
vegetables'vədʒtəblnoun
+edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
+any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
adj.
+of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants
