vegetable
n. 蔬菜, 植物, 无精打采之人 a. 蔬菜的, 植物的
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蔬菜；植物；植物人
a plant that is eaten raw or cooked, such as a cabbage, a carrot, or peas
蔬菜的；植物的
relating to plants in general, rather than animals or things that are not living
释义与例句
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Any plant.
植物
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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.
蔬菜
青菜
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The edible part of such a plant.
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A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
植物人
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5.
A mine (explosive device).
历史 俚语
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Of or relating to plants.
蔬菜
This substance is vegetable not mineral.
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Of or relating to vegetables.
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From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetābilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from vegetāre (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt and ofett, whence modern wort and ovest. Related to vigil, vigour, vajra, and waker.
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