Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of vegetables..

Definitions by Sense

1. Resembling or characteristic of vegetables.
2. In vegetable terms, or by vegetable means.

Example Sentences

To serve four: Peel, cut into quarters and slice very thin two or three good size yellow turnips, making about two cupfuls. Cover with boiling water and sprinkle with one-half teaspoon salt. Allow to stand eight or 10 minutes. This removes any vegetably taste. Drain.

When I tasted it before bottling, it had a medley of sugar, woodiness and typically Chardonnay vegetably taste.

The interior was cramped and disappointingly tidy, disappointingly average: flour sack curtains on the screenless windows, a table, chipped and slightly canted, flanked by two mismatched chairs, a thick vegetably smell like wet grass.

Green asparagus has a more “vegetably” taste, a bit like peas.

When the tea was ready they both drank politely and said it hit the spot, even though it wasn’t very hot and had a funny vegetably taste.

It was stale, and complicated by the stench of recent exhaust smoke from the van, but persisting faintly was a sweetly rotten vegetably odour, as though the warehouse had once stored perishable goods.

The earthy, vegetably taste of fresh spinach is a welcome change for someone who grew up with iceberg lettuce as his only frame of reference for leafy greens (not counting gruesome canned spinach).

It had a pleasant, vegetably taste, and lasted two years in my fridge before fermenting.

Word Forms

• more vegetably
• most vegetably
• vegetabley

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When Should You Use Vegetably?

Use vegetably when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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