vegetables

noun

1. 1

   Any plant.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   The edible part of such a plant.

4. 4

   A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.