蔬菜 — meaning in English
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English meaning
- legume noun The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
- relish noun Great enjoyment or enthusiasm, especially in doing something.
- vegetable noun A plant, or part of a plant, grown to be eaten — such as the leaves, roots, or stems — that isn't classified as a fruit, grain, herb, or spice.
Senses
蔬菜 is used for these senses in English:
- legume (botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
- relish A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
- vegetable A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
- vegetable The edible part of such a plant.
- vegetable (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
legume — full definition
- noun The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
- noun Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
- noun A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
relish — full definition
- noun Great enjoyment or enthusiasm, especially in doing something.
- noun A condiment made from pickled or chopped vegetables or fruit, served as an accompaniment to food.
- verb To enjoy something greatly or look forward to it with pleasure.