Fruit
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
Fruit and vegetable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fruit" instead a noun "Vegetable".
Both words in one sentence
- Similarly, tomato, a New World vegetable/fruit, is commonly associated with Italian cuisine.
Source: Newer Than They Think - The dairy/egg farm runs with one chicken and one cow and the fruit/vegetable one sells fruit from trees the yard clearly doesn't have.
Source: Mythology Gag / Video Games - Do not add flower-only, tree-only, or fruit and vegetable-only tropes here: instead, put them in their respective sub-index.
Source: Plant Tropes
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Vegetable and Fruit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fruit/vegetable
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Vegetable or Fruit. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fruit/vegetable.
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