See Also: Vegetable(medicine)
vegetable(encyclopedia)
vegetable(dictionary)
vegetable wax(medicine)
Vegetable Soup(recipes)
Vegetable Pullao(recipes)
Vegetable Paella(recipes)
Vegetable Stock(recipes)
Vegetable Tart(recipes)
Vegetable fritters(recipes)

enunciation (iou) and vegetable (iou)


enunciation (iou)



enunciation noun. M16.
[Old & mod. French enonciation or Latin enuntiatio(n-), formed as ENUNCIATE: see -ATION.]
The action or manner of enunciating. M16.
A proposition, a statement. L16-M18.
The form of words in which a proposition is stated. L18.

vegetable (iou)



vegetable adjective & noun. LME.
[Old French (mod. vegetable) or late Latin vegetabilis animating, vivifying, from Latin vegetare: see VEGETATE, -ABLE.]
A. adjective (not now always distinguishable from the noun used attrib.).
Living and growing as a plant. LME-L17.
fig.: Marvell My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from a plant or plants; having the Nature or characteristics of a plant; consisting of plants. Freq. opp. animal, mineral. L16.
vegetable dye, vegetable fibre, vegetable tissue, etc.
W. A. Miller The insoluble pectose contained in the vegetable tissue. F. H. A. Scrivener The ancient ink was purely vegetable, without any metallic base.
Of existence etc.: uneventful, monotonous. Also, unresponsive to external stimuli. M19.
J. S. C. Abbott The..peasantry, weary of a merely vegetable life, were glad of any..excitement.
b. noun.
Any member of the plant kingdom; in pl., plants collectively, vegetation. arch. L16.
Any cultivated (usu. herbaceous) plant of which any part, esp. the leaves or root, is eaten in savoury dishes, freq. with meat or fish; such a plant prepared for the table. Cf. FRUIT noun 2. M18.
vegetable Garden, vegetable knife, vegetable soup, etc.
B. Jowett Cabbages or any Other Vegetables which are fit for boiling. attrib.:
fig. A person who lacks animation or leads a monotonous life. Also, a person deprived by brain damage etc. of normal intellectual life or response to stimuli. E20.
J. Dawson I'm going to go on working...Tony..would hate a wife who was just a vegetable. B. Castle Pray she will die with dignity and not be reduced by a stroke into a vegetable.
Special collocations & comb.: vegetable butter: see BUTTER noun1 2. vegetable caterpillar = AWHETO. vegetable ivory: see IVORY noun. vegetable kingdom plants collectively, as forming one of the three traditional divisions of the natural world. vegetable marrow: see MARROW noun1 5. vegetable oyster: see OYSTER noun. vegetable parchment: see PARCHMENT noun 1b. vegetable sheep NZ an upland plant of the composite family, Raoulia eximia, which forms grey cushions suggestive of sheep from a distance. vegetable spaghetti a type of vegetable marrow in which the flesh separates into strands resembling spaghetti; the flesh of such a marrow. vegetable sponge = LOOFAH. vegetable sulphur a flammable powder made from clubmoss spores, used in the manufacture of fireworks. vegetable wax a waxlike exudation from any of certain plants, e.g. the sumac.