Vegetable7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() & Austral.) zucchini, cress, cucumber, endive, fennel, finocchio, frisee, gherkin, globe artichoke, greens, horseradish, iceberg lettuce, Jerusalem artichoke, kale or kail, kohlrabi, lamb's lettuce or corn salad, leek, lettuce, marrow squash, okra, lady's finger, or bhindi, onion, orache, pak-choi, parsnip, pea, pepper, capsicum, or (U.S.) bell pepper, pe-tsai cabbage, pimiento or pimento, potato, radicchio, radish, salsify or oyster plant, savoy cabbage, shallot, silver beet, sorrel, Spanish onion, spinach, spring greens, spring onion, salad onion, scallion (chiefly U.S.), or syboe (Scot.), squash, swede, sweet corn or (chiefly U.S.) corn, sweet potato, batata, or (N.Z. & Canad.) romaine, courgette or (U.S., Canad. U.S., Canad., and Austral.) eggplant, baby corn, bean sprout, beef tomato, beetroot or beet, bok choy, Chinese leaf, Chinese cabbage, or pak-choi, broad been, broccoli, Brussels sprout or sprout, butternut pumpkin, cabbage, calabrese, calalu or calaloo, cardoon, carrot, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, chard, chayote, cherry tomato, chicory, chive, choko, collard, corn on the cob, cos, cos lettuce, or (U.S. Noun see potatoes Vegetables ackee, asparagus, aubergine or (esp. In the 1500s, the adjectival meaning of vegetable familiar to us, "having to do with plants," begins to appear, along with the first instances of vegetable as a noun meaning "a plant." It is not until the 1700s, however, that we find the noun and adjective used more restrictively to refer specifically to certain kinds of plants that are eaten. Marvell's use in the 1600s illustrates the original sense of vegetable, first recorded in the 1400s. Among the edible tubers, or underground stems, are potatoes. Stem vegetables include asparagus and kohlrabi. The root vegetables include beets, carrots, radishes, sweet potatoes, and turnips. ![]() "Vegetable love" is thus a love that grows, takes nourishment, and reproduces, although slowly. Vegetables are usually classified on the basis of the part of the plant that is used for food. As interpreted by the Scholastics, the vegetative soul was common to plants, animals, and humans the sensitive soul was common to animals and humans and the rational soul was found only in humans. Here the word is used figuratively in the sense "having the property of life and growth, as does a plant," a use based on an ancient religious and philosophical notion of the tripartite soul. My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow." One critic has playfully praised Marvell for his ability to make one "think of pumpkins and eternity in one breath," but vegetable in this case is only indirectly related to edible plants. Word History: Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" contains many striking phrases and images, but perhaps most puzzling to modern readers is one in this promise from the speaker to his beloved: " Had we but world enough, and time. ![]()
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