Vegetable (noun)

  1. A plant or part of a plant used as food, typically as accompaniment to meat or fish.
  2. 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:

  1. I need to buy some vegetables for tonight's dinner.
  2. He grew a variety of vegetables in his garden.
  3. She is a vegetarian and doesn't eat meat or fish, only vegetables.
  4. The soup is made with a variety of vegetables.
  5. He was in a car accident and is now a vegetable.
Some random words: strenuous, borderline, apportionment