1.edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
2.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
3.of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants;
decaying vegetable matter
vegetable的含义名词 n. 1.蔬菜;青菜[C] We grow a lot of different vegetables. 我们种植多种不同的蔬菜。 She likes vegetables. 她喜欢蔬菜。 2.植物[U] 3.植物人[C] The freshmen always seem like vegetables. 新生看起来总像植物人。 Since the car accident, she's just been a vegetable. 自从那场车祸以来,她一直是个植物人。 Since she suffered brain damage in the accident she's been a vegetable. 自从事故中脑