Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.

Quotes

• They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.
  • E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 1

• My vegetable Love should grow
  Vaster than Empires, and more slow.
  • Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress", ll. 11–12

• See dying vegetables life sustain,
  See life dissolving vegetate again;
  All forms that perish other forms supply;
  (By turns we catch the vital breath and die.)
  • Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (1733), ep. III, l. 15

• Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act II, scene 1, 2nd Carrier

• Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 5, scene 1, Pistol

• And now, folks, get a load of what our cameraman found in Ecuador. Vegetables on vacation! You've only seen this kind of thing after a party, but down in sunny Ecuador they see it any time—and no hangover to follow! Monster plants on the march! Say, now, that's given me a big idea! Maybe if we can educate our potatoes right we can fix it so they'll walk right into the pot.
  • John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (1951), Ch. 2