Vegetable
(noun)
- A plant or part of a plant used as food, typically as accompaniment to meat or fish.
- A person whose brain has been damaged and is alive but unable to move or communicate.
Origin:
Middle english: from old french, or from latin vegetabilis "animating, enlivening", from vegetare "enliven, quicken".
Examples:
- I need to buy some vegetables for tonight's dinner.
- He grew a variety of vegetables in his garden.
- She is a vegetarian and doesn't eat meat or fish, only vegetables.
- The soup is made with a variety of vegetables.
- He was in a car accident and is now a vegetable.