vegetable : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts
  

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• noun squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow
  cocozelle.
  

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• noun a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish)
  julienne.
  

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• noun any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
  green; greens.
  

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• noun an uncooked vegetable
  rabbit food.
  

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• noun any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
  

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• noun any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon
  

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• (Chem.), an alkaloid.

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• . (Bot.) See Vegetable sulphur, below.

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• (Bot.), a name of several kinds of concrete vegetable oil; as that produced by the Indian butter tree, the African shea tree, and the Pentadesma butyracea, a tree of the order Guttiferæ, also African. Still another kind is pressed from the seeds of cocoa (Theobroma).

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• a textile material, manufactured in Germany from pine-needle wool, a down or fiber obtained from the leaves of the Pinus sylvestris.

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• noun a small garden where vegetables are grown
  kitchen garden; vegetable garden.
  

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• noun a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies
  Sesbania grandiflora; scarlet wisteria tree.
  

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• noun nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons
  apple nut; ivory nut.
  

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• . See Ivory nut, under Ivory.

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• . See Pectin.

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• . (Nat. Hist.) See the last Phrase, below.
• (Nat. Hist.), that primary division of living things which includes all plants. The classes of the vegetable kingdom have been grouped differently by various botanists. The following is one of the best of the many arrangements of the principal subdivisions. I. Phænogamia (called also Phanerogamia). Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. { 1. Dicotyledons (called also Exogens). Seeds with two or more cotyledons. Stems with the pith, woody fiber, and bark concentrically arranged. Divided into two subclasses: Angiosperms, having the woody fiber interspersed with dotted or annular ducts, and the seed contained in a true ovary; Gymnosperms, having few or no ducts in the woody fiber, and the seeds naked. 2. Monocotyledons (called also Endogens). Seeds with single cotyledon. Stems with slender bundles of woody fiber not concentrically arranged, and with no true bark.} II. Cryptogamia. Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division. { 1. Acrogens. Plants usually with distinct stems and leaves, existing in two alternate conditions, one of which is nonsexual and sporophoric, the other sexual and oöphoric. Divided into Vascular Acrogens, or Pteridophyta, having the sporophoric plant conspicuous and consisting partly of vascular tissue, as in Ferns, Lycopods, and Equiseta, and Cellular Acrogens, or Bryophyta, having the sexual plant most conspicuous, but destitute of vascular tissue, as in Mosses and Scale Mosses. 2. Thallogens. Plants without distinct stem and leaves, consisting of a simple or branched mass of cellular tissue, or educed to a single cell. Reproduction effected variously. Divided into Algæ, which contain chlorophyll or its equivalent, and which live upon air and water, and Fungi, which contain no chlorophyll, and live on organic matter. (Lichens are now believed to be fungi parasitic on included algæ.}

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• . (a) (Bot.) A shrubby West Indian spurge (Euphorbia punicea), with leathery foliage and crimson bracts. (b) See Vegetable leather, under Leather.
• . (a) An imitation of leather made of cotton waste . (b) Linen cloth coated with India rubber.

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• noun any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
  marrow; marrow squash.
  
• noun large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins
  marrow.
  

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• (Bot.), an egg-shaped gourd, commonly eight to ten inches long. It is noted for the very tender quality of its flesh, and is a favorite culinary vegetable in England. It has been said to be of Persian origin, but is now thought to have been derived from a form of the American pumpkin.

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• noun matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant
  

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• noun any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
  oil.
  

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• noun Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States
  salsify; Tragopogon porrifolius; oyster plant.
  
• noun long white salsify
  oyster plant.
  

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• (Bot.), the oyster plant. See under Oyster.

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• papyrine.

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• noun a small garden where vegetables are grown
  kitchen garden; vegetable garden.
  

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• noun perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage
  Raoulia lutescens; sheep plant; Raoulia australis.
  
• noun cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs
  Haastia pulvinaris; sheep plant.
  

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• (Bot.), a white woolly plant (Raoulia eximia) of New Zealand, which grows in the form of large fleecy cushions on the mountains.

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• noun a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation
  silk cotton; kapok.
  

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• a cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree (Chorisia speciosa). It us used for various purposes, as for stuffing, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers.

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• noun soup made with a variety of vegetables
  minestrone; petite marmite.
  

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• noun the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit
  loofah; Luffa cylindrica.
  

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• . See 1st Loof.
• . (Bot.) See Loof.

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• the fine highly inflammable spores of the club moss (Lycopodium clavatum); witch.

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• noun a waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow
  

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• a substance resembling tallow, obtained from various plants; as, Chinese vegetable tallow, obtained from the seeds of the tallow tree. Indian vegetable tallow is a name sometimes given to piney tallow.

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• noun a waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms)
  

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• a waxy excretion on the leaves or fruits of certain plants, as the bayberry.

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