vegetable
part of speech
noun (vegetable, vegetables; informal veg, veggies); adjective (vegetable oil)
meaning for a pupil
1) A vegetable is a plant or part of a plant we eat, like a carrot, potato, cabbage or bean. tree →
2) Vegetable can mean made from plants: vegetable oil. tree →
sense in the lessons
a group word that covers carrots, potatoes and others; problems may ask for all vegetables together; in science and health: we eat different parts: roots (carrots), leaves (lettuce), stems (celery), flowers (broccoli), seeds (peas); eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day; in everyday life: growing vegetables in a garden; phrases: «fruit and vegetables», «vegetable garden», «veg»
examples
- She bought 3 carrots and 5 potatoes. How many vegetables did she buy? tree →
- The garden has 4 rows of vegetables. tree →
- Vegetables cost 2 dollars a kilo. tree →
- He ate 2 portions of vegetables a day. tree →
- Eat lots of fruit and vegetables to stay healthy. tree →
- A carrot is a root vegetable. tree →
- We grow vegetables in the school garden. tree →
- Wash vegetables before you eat them. tree →
- He was carrying a huge basket of vegetables. tree →
note
A group word: «how many vegetables» often means add the kinds together. Trap: do not add fruit (apples) to vegetables if only vegetables are asked. Trap: in science, a tomato is a fruit (it has seeds), but in cooking it is used like a vegetable. Spelling: v-e-g-e-t-a-b-l-e.
In the corpora
- Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.
- "Dad's car rots" hides the vegetable CARROT across "car" and "rots".
- Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vegetables such as pepper or leafy greens every day.
- Fruit, vegetables, whole grains and water help with constipation, which is common.
- Fruit and vegetables are washed before eating to remove dirt and chemicals.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «vegetable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.