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vegetable

noun as in edible part of plant

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Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.

The stewed cabbage is insanely tender, vegetable-sweet, and more luxurious than cabbage has a right to be.

Traffic was terrible, though, so only a few dozen people gamely remained to pick over the vegetable spread and drink beer.

Poking through this crunchy-sweet vegetable mound is edible ecstasy.

The truth is that diet should be varied and no single vegetable produces “miracle” results.

Grain merchants and vegetable dealers jostled each other in the streets themselves.

Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.

Even slight familiarity with the microscopic structure of vegetable tissue will prevent the chagrin of such errors.

It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps.

It is produced abundantly when vegetable matters are burnt, as also during respiration, fermentation, and many other processes.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vegetable, such as: herb, legume, produce, salad, edible, and green.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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