vegetable Definition

vegetable
noun

1a. A plant or any of its parts, other than fruits and seeds, that is used for food, eg roots, tubers, stems or leaves;
1b. The edible part of such a plant.
2. loosely
Used to refer to some fruits that are used for food, eg tomato, marrow.
3. offensive, colloq
A person almost totally incapable of any physical or mental activity because of severe brain damage.
4. derog, colloq
A dull uninteresting person.

adj

1. For, relating to, or composed of vegetables.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin vegetabilis, from vegetus lively.