Word for the day: vegetable

vegetable |ˈvɛdʒtəb(ə)l, ˈvɛdʒɪtə-|       *vegetal (In Spanish)



DEFINITION
noun
1 a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, turnip, or bean.2 informal, offensive a person who is incapable of normal mental or physical activity, especially through brain damage.• informal a person with a dull or inactive life: I thought I'd sort of flop back and be a vegetable for a bit.

ORIGIN Late Middle English (in the sense ‘growing as a plant’): from Old French, or from late Latin vegetabilis ‘animating’, from Latin vegetare (see vegetate). The noun dates from the late 16th cent.

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