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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VEGETABLE (See also:

Late See also:Lat. vegetabilis, full of See also:life, :animating, from vegetate, frequentative of vegere to quicken, arouse, vegetus, as a See also:general See also:term for See also:plants (q.v.), and specifically, in popular. See also:language, of such plants as can be eaten by See also:man or animals, whether cooked or raw, and whether the whole of such plants are edible, or only the leaves or the roots or tubers. Among such edible or culinary plants or portions of plants, a further distinction is made popularly between "fruits " and " vegetables," for which see See also:FRUIT. For the See also:botany and cultivation of vegetables see under the specific names, e.g. See also:POTATO, See also:TURNIP, &c.

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