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# vegetable

«vegetable» in Mova's school dictionary: **a plant or part of a plant we eat, like a carrot, potato…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (vegetable, vegetables; informal veg, veggies); adjective (vegetable oil)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A vegetable is a plant or part of a plant we eat, like a carrot, potato, cabbage or bean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#m1)

2) Vegetable can mean made from plants: vegetable oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a group word that covers carrots, potatoes and others; problems may ask for all vegetables together; in science and health: we eat different parts: roots (carrots), leaves (lettuce), stems (celery), flowers (broccoli), seeds (peas); eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day; in everyday life: growing vegetables in a garden; phrases: «fruit and vegetables», «vegetable garden», «veg»

### examples

- She bought 3 carrots and 5 potatoes. How many vegetables did she buy? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x1)
- The garden has 4 rows of vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x2)
- Vegetables cost 2 dollars a kilo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x3)
- He ate 2 portions of vegetables a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x4)
- Eat lots of fruit and vegetables to stay healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x5)
- A carrot is a root vegetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x6)
- We grow vegetables in the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x7)
- Wash vegetables before you eat them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x8)
- He was carrying a huge basket of vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/#x9)

### note

A group word: «how many vegetables» often means add the kinds together. Trap: do not add fruit (apples) to vegetables if only vegetables are asked. Trap: in science, a tomato is a fruit (it has seeds), but in cooking it is used like a vegetable. Spelling: v-e-g-e-t-a-b-l-e.

### In the corpora

- [Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/16/)
- ["Dad's car rots" hides the vegetable CARROT across "car" and "rots".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/8/)
- [Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vegetables such as pepper or leafy greens every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/8/)
- [Fruit, vegetables, whole grains and water help with constipation, which is common.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet/15/)
- [Fruit and vegetables are washed before eating to remove dirt and chemicals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vegetable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vegetable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.