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veg·e·ta·ble (vjt-bl, vj-t-)

n.

1. A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.

2. The edible part of such a plant.

adj.

Of, relating to, or derived from plants or a plant.

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vegetable

1. pertaining to or derived from plants.

2. any plant or species of plant, especially one cultivated as a source of food.

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vegetable drugs

derived from plants; includes alkaloids, glycosides, resins, gums and oils.

vegetable matter base

residue after dissolving wool in a sample; a measure of the contamination of the wool.

vegetable oil

oil derived from plants. Commercially used oils include peanut, linseed, sesame, cottonseed and castor. A separate group is the volatile oils including oil of turpentine, eucalyptus, peppermint and oil of cloves (eugenol). Animal oils are irritating to tissue and their accidental inhalation almost always causes a serious aspiration pneumonia. Vegetable oils are virtually nonpathogenic.