Any plant. / 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.

Of or relating to plants. / Of or relating to vegetables.

plural of vegetable

Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth. / (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction. / Physically inactive.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vegetate

On which vegetation is growing.

present participle of vegetate

simple past tense and past participle of vegetate

(now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). / Pertaining to vegetables or plants.

(obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.