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VEJT-uh-bl/ˈvedʒtəbl/

Plant food such as potatoes, carrots, and peas: a vegetable. Eat your vegetables (plural is very common). Fruit is usually sweeter; vegetables are the savoury plant foods. Veg is informal British short form. Countable: one vegetable, some vegetables.

Meaning

A plant or part of a plant eaten as food, such as a potato or carrot.

Examples

• “Eat more vegetables.”
• “We grow vegetables in the garden.”
• “This soup has three vegetables in it.”

Good to know

a vegetable / vegetables. Informal: veg. Contrast: fruit.

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