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• vegetable matter — noun matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant • Hypernyms: ↑matter • Hyponyms: ↑peat, ↑coal …   Useful english dictionary

• vegetable — /vej teuh beuhl, vej i teuh /, n. 1. any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower. 2. the edible part of such a… …   Universalium

• matter — I n. affair 1) to pursue, take up a matter 2) to arrange; clear up, settle, straighten out; complicate; simplify matters 3) to give a matter (attention, thought) (we have given this matter considerable thought) 4) to not mince matters (she never… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Vegetable — For other uses, see Vegetable (disambiguation). Farmers market showing vegetable …   Wikipedia

• vegetable — [[t]ve̱ʤtəb(ə)l[/t]] ♦♦♦ vegetables 1) N COUNT Vegetables are plants such as cabbages, potatoes, and onions which you can cook and eat. A good general diet should include plenty of fresh vegetables. ...traditional Caribbean fruit and vegetables …   English dictionary

• vegetable — /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl / (say vejtuhbuhl) noun 1. any herbaceous plant, annual, biennial, or perennial, whose fruits, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as tomato, bean, beet, potato, asparagus, cabbage, etc. 2.… …  

• matter — [[t]mæ̱tə(r)[/t]] ♦ matters, mattering, mattered 1) N COUNT: usu with supp A matter is a task, situation, or event which you have to deal with or think about, especially one that involves problems. It was clear that she wanted to discuss some… …   English dictionary

• matter — mat•ter [[t]ˈmæt ər[/t]] n. 1) the substance of which any physical object consists or is composed 2) phs physical or corporeal substance in general, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, esp. as distinguished from incorporeal substance, as spirit or …   From formal English to slang

• vegetable — vege|ta|ble1 W3S3 [ˈvedʒtəbəl] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Medieval Latin; Origin: vegetabilis growing , from vegetare to grow , from Latin vegere to cause to act, excite ] 1.) a plant that is eaten raw or cooked, such as a ↑cabbage, a ↑carrot, or… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• matter — 1. noun 1) decaying vegetable matter Syn: material, substance, stuff 2) the heart of the matter Syn: affair, business, proceeding, situation, circumstance, event, happening, occurrence …   Thesaurus of popular words

• matter — I. noun Etymology: Middle English matere, from Anglo French, from Latin materia matter, physical substance, from mater Date: 13th century 1. a. a subject under consideration b. a subject of disagreement or litigation c. plural the events or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary