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nonvegetable

/vej-tuh-buhl, vej-i-tuh-/US // ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl, ˈvɛdʒ ɪ tə- //UK // (ˈvɛdʒtəbəl) //

非植物性,非植物性的,非植物,非植物类

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
    • : the edible part of such a plant, as the tuber of the potato.
    • : any member of the plant kingdom; plant.
    • : Informal. a person who is so severely impaired mentally or physically as to be largely incapable of conscious responses or activity.
    • : a dull, spiritless, and uninteresting person.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, consisting of, or made from edible vegetables: a vegetable diet.
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of plants: the vegetable kingdom.
    • : derived from plants: vegetable fiber; vegetable oils.
    • : consisting of, comprising, or containing the substance or remains of plants: vegetable matter; a vegetable organism.
    • : of the nature of or resembling a plant: the vegetable forms of Art Nouveau ornament.
    • : inactive; inert; dull; uneventful: a vegetable existence.

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Examples

  • Kanukollu, 26, said that unlike other vertical farming models, which only grow lettuce and basil, UrbanKisaan has devised technology to grow over 50 varieties of vegetables.

  • So even as the average flow of the Colorado River — the water supply for 40 million Western Americans and the backbone of the nation’s vegetable and cattle farming — has declined for most of the last 33 years, the population of Nevada has doubled.

  • It was rejecting the microwave dinners and canned vegetables of your foreparents, making double stock from leftover roast chickens instead of buying broth in a carton, and eschewing pre-cut fruit and instant rice.

  • You drive to the allotment and attend to your flowers and vegetables.

  • An 850-watt motor powers through hard veggies like carrots, while the two-speed control knob slows things down for softer fruits and vegetables.

  • Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.

  • The stewed cabbage is insanely tender, vegetable-sweet, and more luxurious than cabbage has a right to be.

  • Traffic was terrible, though, so only a few dozen people gamely remained to pick over the vegetable spread and drink beer.

  • Poking through this crunchy-sweet vegetable mound is edible ecstasy.

  • The truth is that diet should be varied and no single vegetable produces “miracle” results.

  • Grain merchants and vegetable dealers jostled each other in the streets themselves.

  • Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.

  • Even slight familiarity with the microscopic structure of vegetable tissue will prevent the chagrin of such errors.

  • It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps.

  • It is produced abundantly when vegetable matters are burnt, as also during respiration, fermentation, and many other processes.