Edible and Vegetable

Edible

Edible noun - Any substance that can be used as food.

Vegetable and edible are semantically related In some cases you can use "Vegetable" instead a noun "Edible".

Nearby Word: edibility

Vegetable

Vegetable noun - Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
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Synonyms for Vegetable

Edible and vegetable are semantically related in edible part of plant topic. Sometimes you can use "Edible" instead a noun "Vegetable".

Both words in one sentence

  • Fruit and Vegetable Tropes The word "vegetable" has no scientific meaning; gastronomically they are typically used for edible parts of plants that are not fruits (roots, leaves and stems).
  • Western Animation / Dilbert It takes Dilmom teaching them how to properly prepare the tomeato so it becomes edible (cooking it like a meat/fruit hybrid which it actually is rather than a vegetable) for the situation to go back to normal.
  • Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" The problem is that a yam is a completely different vegetable (Dioscorea spp.) that 'resembles' the sweet potato only in that it is an edible root; sweet potatoes are generally about six inches long, thin-skinned, and related to morning glories.
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