vegetable, veggie

edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

• raw vegetable, rabbit food — an uncooked vegetable
• legume — the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
• potherb — any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning
• greens, green, leafy vegetable — any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
• solanaceous vegetable — any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum; Capsicum; Lycopersicon
• root vegetable — any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
• pieplant, rhubarb — long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
• cruciferous vegetable — a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts
• squash — edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
• cucumber, cuke — cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
• artichoke, globe artichoke — a thistle-like flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart
• artichoke heart — the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower
• asparagus — edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
• bamboo shoot — edible young shoots of bamboo
• onion — pungent bulb
• leek — related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
• cardoon — only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes
• celery — stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning
• gumbo, okra — long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
• mushroom — fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
• pumpkin — usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
• truffle, earthnut — edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
• plantain — starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
• fennel, Florence fennel, finocchio — aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads

• produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck — fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

• herb, herbaceous plant — a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests