Vegetable

Vegetable

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

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Famous quotes containing the word vegetable:

    “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)

    “They have been waiting for us in a foetor
    Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
    Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
    Of the expropriated mycologist.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

    “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)