vegetable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/|[ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bɫ̩]|/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.ə.tə.bəl/    /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/|[ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bɫ̩]|/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.ə.tə.bəl/|/ˈvɛt͡ʃ.tə.bəl/|/ˈved͡ʒ.tə.bəl/|[ˈved͡ʒ.tə.bɫ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any plant. archaic
    — That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
  2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
  3. The edible part of such a plant.
  4. A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state. derogatory,figuratively
  5. A mine (explosive device). historical,slang
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to plants. not-comparable
    — This substance is vegetable, not mineral.
  2. Of or relating to vegetables. not-comparable

词形变化

vegetables plural vegitable alternative,obsolete vegitable alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett, whence modern wort and ovest.
Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.
词源 2
From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett, whence modern wort and ovest.
Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.
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