vegetable

Roget-categorie 367

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
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#367. Vegetable

zelfstandig naamwoord

vegetable, vegetable kingdom — flora, verdure.
plant — tree, shrub, bush — creeper — herb, herbage — grass.
annual — perennial, biennial, triennial — exotic.
timber, forest — wood, woodlands — timberland — hurst^†, frith^†, holt, weald^†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage^†, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney — underwood, brushwood — scrub — boscage, bosk^†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.] — arboretum etc. 371.
bush, jungle, prairie — heath, heather — fern, bracken — furze, gorse, whin — grass, turf — pasture, pasturage — turbary^† — sedge, rush, weed — fungus, mushroom, toadstool — lichen, moss, conferva^†, mold — growth — alfalfa, alfilaria^†, banyan — blow, blowth^† — floret^†, petiole — pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.
foliage, branch, bough, ramage^†, stem, tigella^† — spray etc. 51 — leaf.
flower, blossom, bine^† — flowering plant — timber tree, fruit tree — pulse, legume.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

vegetable, vegetal, vegetive^†, vegitous^† — herbaceous, herbal — botanic^† — sylvan, silvan^† — arborary^†, arboreous^†, arborescent^†, arborical^† — woody, grassy — verdant, verdurous — floral, mossy — lignous^†, ligneous — wooden, leguminous — vosky^†, cespitose^†, turf-like, turfy — endogenous, exogenous.

uitdrukking

green-robed senators of mighty woods" [Keats]; this is the forest primeval" [Longfellow].

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