Synonyms for vegetable
ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl, ˈvɛdʒ ɪ tə-veg·etable

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1. vegetable

   Synonyms:
   angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material)

   Antonyms:
   animal, beast, brute, fauna, living creature, living organism, sentient being

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1. vegetable, veggie, vegnoun

   edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

   Synonyms:
   veg, veggie

2. vegetablenoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   veg, veggie

Matched Categories

1. • Herbaceous Plant
   • Produce

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1. vegetablenoun

   Synonyms:
   plant

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1. vegetablenoun

   Synonyms:
   plant, truck

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1. List of paraphrases for "vegetable":

   vegetables, plant, plants, vegetal, vegetation, legume, crop

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1. Cynthia Sass:

   Cooking any vegetable softens the fiber and shrinks the portion as some of the water cooks out, so it takes up less space in the GI tract.

2. Jay Cowin:

   Like many vegetable oils, soybean oil is highly refined. This means it goes through an extensive process involving numerous chemicals to extract it from corn and make it into oil, this production process makes soybean oil more prone to becoming oxidized — and when we have a lot of oxidized compounds in our body, we put ourselves at risk for multiple diseases.

3. H. G. Wells:

   Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom

4. Mona Gohara:

   It’s just like when you eat a whole vegetable. You may be getting more nutrients than we even know about.

5. Mary Cunningham Deluca:

   We eat family style and teach kids to serve themselves, when we hire teachers, they are required to model healthy eating, so even if they don’t like a vegetable they have to sample it.