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Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or
produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices,
etc. |
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Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable
kingdom. |
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Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. |
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Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute
spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division. |
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A plant. See Plant. |
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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. |