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Plural of vegetable

regular plural

The plural of vegetable is vegetables.

Forms of vegetable

Singularvegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
Pluralvegetables /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəlz/
Countablecountable

Vegetables in a sentence

  • But fresh fruits and vegetables were in short supply because they were difficult to ship and because growing seasons were so short.2025 January 13, Gina Kolata, “Have Americans Ever Really Been Healthy?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025
  • Bring the water to the boil and drop the vegetables in.From the entry in
  • Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.From the entry cream
  • You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.From the entry lemon
  • We all need potassium, and green vegetables are a good source.From the entry potassium

Meaning of vegetable

  1. noun Any plant.
  2. noun 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, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed.
  3. noun The edible part of such a plant.

Full definition of vegetable

Questions about the plural of vegetable

What is the plural of vegetable?
The plural of vegetable is vegetables.
Is vegetable countable?
Vegetable is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vegetable (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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