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VEGGIE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Synonyms:

veg; vegetable; veggie

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("veggie" is a kind of...):

garden truck; green goods; green groceries; produce (fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "veggie"):

fennel; finocchio; Florence fennel (aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads)

plantain (starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics)

earthnut; truffle (edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber)

pumpkin (usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn)

mushroom (fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi)

gumbo; okra (long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews)

celery (stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning)

cardoon (only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes)

leek (related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves)

onion (an aromatic flavorful vegetable)

bamboo shoot (edible young shoots of bamboo)

asparagus (edible young shoots of the asparagus plant)

artichoke heart (the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower)

artichoke; globe artichoke (a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart)

cucumber; cuke (cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons)

squash (edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable)

cruciferous vegetable (a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts)

pieplant; rhubarb (long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened)

root vegetable (any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers)

solanaceous vegetable (any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon)

green; greens; leafy vegetable (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)

potherb (any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning)

legume (the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils))

rabbit food; raw vegetable (an uncooked vegetable)

julienne; julienne vegetable (a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish))

Holonyms ("veggie" is a part of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

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