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Thesaurus > Matter > Organic matter > Vitality > Special vitality

367. Vegetable

Nouns

  • vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.
  • plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.
  • annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.
  • timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst [obs3], frith [obs3], holt, weald [obs3], park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage [obs3], tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk [obs3], ceja [Sp], chaparral, motte [obs3][U.S.].; arboretum etc. S371.
  • bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary [obs3]; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva [obs3], mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria [obs3], banyan; blow, blowth [obs3]; floret [obs3], petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.
  • foliage, branch, bough, ramage [obs3], stem, tigella [obs3]; spray etc. S51; leaf.
  • flower, blossom, bine [obs3]; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.

Adjectives

  • vegetable, vegetal, vegetive [obs3], vegitous|; herbaceous, herbal; botanic [obs3]; sylvan, silvan [obs3]; arborary [obs3], arboreous [obs3], arborescent [obs3], arborical|; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous [obs3], ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky [obs3], cespitose [obs3], turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.

Phrases

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