HOW TO PRONOUNCE
vegetable
/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
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The middle is shorter than the spelling suggests.
Use three syllables, stressing VEJ. The middle is shorter than the spelling suggests.
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“A vegetable soup.”
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noun
- 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, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed.
- The edible part of such a plant.
adjective
- Of or relating to plants.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Of or relating to vegetables.
noun
- (archaic) Any plant.
- (derogatory, figuratively) 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.
- (historical, slang) A mine (explosive device).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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While the mixture cooled, he and Elnora walked through the vegetable garden behind the cabin and strayed from there into the woods.
Deer heads went into it whole, as well as every kind of meat and vegetable the members of the tribe could procure.
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At the close of this ceremony the ladies were invited to partake of a feast prepared wholly of vegetables and vegetable oils.
Never-failing mountain streams, deep canons and dark forests wait to be visited and explored, while curiosities in animal and vegetable life abound.
I opened the stomachs of several, and found them full of vegetable fibres and leaves of different trees, especially of an acacia.