Vegetable

What “Vegetable” means

Noun

1. Any plant.
2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed.
3. The edible part of such a plant.
4. A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
5. A mine (explosive device).

Adj

1. Of or relating to plants.
2. Of or relating to vegetables.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *weg-o-der.? Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woǵéyetider. Proto-Italic *wogeōder.? Latin vegeō Latin vegetus Latin vegetāre, vegetō Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin vegetābilisbor. Old French vegetablebor. Middle English vegetable English vegetable From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett, whence modern wort and ovest. Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.

Business name ideas with “Vegetable”

Industries where “Vegetable” fits

We suggest this word for 4 business types and industries, including:

• Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers
• Frozen Fruit, Juice, and Vegetable Manufacturing
• Fruit and Vegetable Canning
• Fruit and Vegetable Markets