Vegetable

Vegetable

A vegetable is an edible plant or part of a plant. This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant.

Read more about Vegetable.

Famous quotes containing the word vegetable:

    “A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
    languid spleen,
    An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a
    not-too-French French bean!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)