What is the meaning of vegetable?

Answer 1

Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc., Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom., Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds., Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division., A plant. See Plant., A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.