| (v.) | Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc. |
| (v.) | Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom. |
| (v.) | Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. |
| (v.) | Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division. |
| (n.) | A plant. See Plant. |
| (n.) | A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table. |