Edible
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".
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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).
Source: Fruit and Vegetable Tropes -
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.
Source: Western Animation / Dilbert -
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.
Source: Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
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Vegetable and Edible. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/edible/vegetable
Edible & Vegetable. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/edible/vegetable>.
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