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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing or used in growing pot-herbs and kitchen vegetables: equivalent to kitchen- or vegetable- in the compounds kitchen-garden, vegetable-garden.
  • noun A vegetable or other pot-herb of the kinds commonly grown in kitchen-gardens.
  • noun A kitchen-garden.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to, or produced in, a kitchen garden; used for kitchen purposes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a kitchen garden; used for culinary purposes.

Etymologies

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Latin olitorius belonging to a kitchen gardener, or to vegetables, from olitor a kitchen gardener, from olus, oleris, vegetables.

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