vegetables
- 1Plural of vegetable.
The soup was packed with vegetables from the garden.
Root vegetables store well through the winter months.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s, and one that belongs only to the noun. The adjective vegetable, meaning "of or relating to plants," never takes the ending. So the phrases are vegetable oils and vegetable matter, never vegetables oils. The plural serves every noun meaning alike: edible produce, plants in general, the derogatory use for people in a persistent vegetative state, and even the historical slang for explosive mines.
vegetables is a form of vegetable
vegetable, noun: A plant, or a part of one such as its leaves, roots, stems, or flowers, that is eaten as food, usually savory rather than sweet like fruit. Full entry
- Forms
- vegetablevegetables plural
- Spelling
- vegetable → vegetables: add -s
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