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- noun Plural form of
vegetable .
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Examples
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We question, however, whether this hypertrophy of fruit or vegetables improves their flavour; give us _English vegetables_ -- ay, and _English fruit_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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(I guess his preference in vegetables is testament to his bad-assitude?)
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But offering up plain vegetables is sometimes a little much.
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In one of the passage-ways a trade in vegetables is carried on, and in the other shoes are made.
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* Quoting prices in spot time frames for fruits and vegetables is inherently undependable.
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• Chipotle or other Mexican restaurant: Three steak tacos (three soft taco shells, steak, fajita vegetables, tomato salsa and lettuce) • Ruby Tuesday or other steak place that serves plain vegetables: Petite sirloin, creamy mashed cauliflower, small salad
Easy, low-calorie recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks 2010
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Drain vegetables and transfer to food-processor bowl.
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Perhaps the infamy of certain vegetables has been enough to thwart you from even trying it.
Diaphanous Roasted Kale Sarah Lenz 2009
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And my job in Strathardle this week, apart from my dear vegetables, is to knit the cardigan with single-minded fury.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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* Quoting prices in spot time frames for fruits and vegetables is inherently undependable.
bilby commented on the word vegetables
"The number-one reason for eating a plant-rich diet is that it tastes good. The five vegetables that Americans eat most are French fries, tomatoes (mostly as sauce or ketchup), onions, iceberg lettuce, and other potatoes."
- Bonnie Liebman, Ten Reasons To Eat More Like A Vegetarian, godsdirectcontact.org, cited 25 March 2009.
March 25, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word vegetables
I can cope with WeirdNet #1 and #3's love of disjunction, but 'numerous herbaceous plant'? Who else uses plant as a mass noun?
March 25, 2009
reesetee commented on the word vegetables
And did you know that vegetables are fresh fruits (Definition 2)? But sadly, they are only one vegetable.
March 25, 2009
yarb commented on the word vegetables
Wot no rutabaga?
I notice that four of the five vegetables that Americans eat most are present in a burger and fries.
And since when have "French fries" been a vegetable in their own right?
March 25, 2009
sionnach commented on the word vegetables
Iceberg lettuce? I hope this is not being suggested as one of the ten most compelling reasons to eat more like a vegetarian. Now, a little endive salad with pear, walnuts and gorgonzola, that's a different matter entirely.
March 25, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word vegetables
Iceberg lettuce is a tool of the devil.
March 25, 2009
skipvia commented on the word vegetables
How depressing, bilby. Add two all beef patties (god, I hate that word) and a drink (supersize!) and you've got yourself a Big Mac Happy Meal.
March 26, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word vegetables
*actually likes Big Macs*
*slinks away in shame*
March 26, 2009
yarb commented on the word vegetables
Actually Skip, I believe there's no such thing as a "Big Mac Happy Meal". A Happy Meal is aimed at children (though enjoyed by diners of all ages) and is typically available with hamburger, cheeseburger or Chicken McNuggets. The Big Mac can be purchased a la carte or as part of a Big Mac Meal.
March 26, 2009
skipvia commented on the word vegetables
Sorry, yarb. It's been a long time since I visited a McDonalds...
March 26, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word vegetables
I believe they now have "Big Kids' meals" (unless that's Burger King I'm thinking of), which would include a double hamburger/double-cheeseburger, or probably more nuggets.
As a simple, inexpensive way to make your child fatter and even more unhealthy... And of course if you order it and you're not a child, it's only slightly smaller than the adult versions (if at all).
March 26, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word vegetables
"Vegetables were the most consistent edible sign of rusticity, even more than dairy products or sausages. As with fruit, we can surmise that nobles and affluent townspeople actually ate more vegetables than the sources allow us to see, but there is no doubt that the upper-class diet was quite unbalanced in the direction of meat and protein. ... Among vegetables, strongly scented root crops like turnips, onions, and parsnips were regarded with particular contempt as characteristic of the diet of the rural poor. ... The degraded life of the peasantry is symbolized by many things, according to their betters: bedraggled clothing, coarse features, dirt--but also by what they eat."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 42.
November 27, 2017