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Vegetable occurs as nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of the plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is non look on a culinary grain, fruit, nut, herb, or spice.
These include leaf vegetables (e.g. lettuce), stem vegetables (asparagus), root vegetables (carrot) and flower vegetables (broccoli), and botanic fruits like green beans, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, tomatoes, avocados, capsicums, et cetera, when well as overweight, unformed seeds like people of peas or beans.
Vegetable is non the botanical term and so no contradiction around the plant structure existence the fruit botanically spell however existence considered the vegetable.
In the main, vegetables come thought of when existence dine in the main course, non when dessert or breakfast (with a bit of exceptions, like rhubarb).
Commercial production of vegetables occurs as branch of horticulture called olericulture.
Vegetable is likewise utilized as a literary term for any plant: vegetable matter, vegetable kingdom.
See Also
List of vegetables
Vegetarianism
Veganism
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