of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.-consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.-plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.-plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.-a plant. see plant.-a plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.