veg

Noun
  1. Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant (synset 107723196)
    is a type of: garden truck, green goods, green groceries, produce - fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
    subtypes:
    • julienne, julienne vegetable - a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish)
    • rabbit food, raw vegetable - an uncooked vegetable
    • legume - the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
    • potherb - any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning
    • green, greens, leafy vegetable - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
    • solanaceous vegetable - any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon
    • root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
    • pieplant, rhubarb - long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
    • cruciferous vegetable - a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts
    • squash - edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
    • cucumber, cuke - cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
    • artichoke, globe artichoke - a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart
    • artichoke heart - the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower
    • asparagus - edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
    • bamboo shoot - edible young shoots of bamboo
    • onion - an aromatic flavorful vegetable
    • leek - related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
    • cardoon - only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes
    • celery - stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning
    • gumbo, okra - long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
    • mushroom - fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
    • pumpkin - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
    • earthnut, truffle - edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
    • plantain - starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
    • fennel, finocchio, florence fennel - aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
    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
    same as: vegetable, veggie

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