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:
“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Its peeling now, age has got it,
a kind of cancer of the background
and also in the assorted features.
Its like a rotten flag
or a vegetable from the refrigerator,
pocked with mold.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“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)