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adj
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- any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- Any plant.
- 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.
- The edible part of such a plant.
- (RAF, slang, historical) A mine (explosive device).
- (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
- edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
noun
noun
- A root vegetable.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- an aromatic flavorful vegetable
- the bulb of an onion plant
- bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
- Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
- (slang) Of a drug, an ounce.
- (4chan slang, slang) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
- The bulb of such a plant.
noun
- A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
- A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
- (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
- Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
- (chiefly UK) Lettuce.
- food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
noun
- A kind of vegetable similar to a large courgette, zucchini or squash.
- (Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
- The pith of certain plants.
- (uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
- (countable, medicine, colloquial) Bone marrow biopsy.
- (figurative) The essence; the best part.
- (figurative) The inner meaning or purpose.
- any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
- large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins
- very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones
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noun
- any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
- an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
- an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
- green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- street names for ketamine
- A green light used as a signal.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Any substance or pigment of a green color.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (British) A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- (theater, informal) Ellipsis of green room.
- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
adj
- not fully developed or mature; not ripe
- of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
- naive and easily deceived or tricked
- looking pale and unhealthy
- concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
- Good for the environment
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Islamist.
- (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- Having a status (as correct, ready, or safe) denoted or coded by the color green.
- (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- (Philippines, informal) Having a sexual connotation; indecent; lewd; risqué; obscene; profane.
- (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
- (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available to read for free after an embargo period.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented.
- Of a green hue.
- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (figurative) Inexperienced.
- (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
- (metallurgy) Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength.
verb
intj
noun
- any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
- Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
- Leafy plants that are used for decoration.
- Green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll.
- (military) The green dress uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
- plural of green
verb
noun
- The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
- The human body as a physical entity.
- (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
- A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
- The skin of a human or animal.
- (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
- The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
- (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
- Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
- a soft moist part of a fruit
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
verb
- (transitive) To glut.
- (transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
- (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
- (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
- To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
- remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture
noun
- any of various types of cabbage
- (uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- informal terms for money
- any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
- (slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
- A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- (by extension) Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A human head.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
verb
noun
verb
- bring onto the market or release
- cause to happen, occur or exist
- bring out for display
- bring forth or yield
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- (music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
- (transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
- (intransitive) To make or yield something.
- (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
noun
- edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
- a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
- (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
verb
noun
- plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
- Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.
- A green colour, like that of an asparagus.
- The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.
noun
- (cooking) The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.
- (cooking) The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking.
- A plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.
- any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems
- aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
- fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture
- leaves used for seasoning
adj
- of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
- having a heading or caption
- having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination
- having a heading or course in a certain direction
- (in combination) Having hair of a specified color.
- (of hardware) Having been headed: having had a head formed (by deformation such as die-stamping).
- (in combination) Having a head or brain with specified characteristics.
- (in combination) Heading in a certain direction.
- Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top.
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noun
name
- (historical) A former duchy existing from 1416 to 1847, whose maximal extent included parts of modern southeastern France, northwestern Italy, and southwestern Switzerland; in full, Duchy of Savoy.
- (historical) A historical region shared between the modern countries of France, Italy and Switzerland.
- Alternative form of Savoie: A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
noun
- (chiefly British) The pods, sliced, as a vegetable.
- A climbing plant of species Phaseolus coccineus, having long bean pods.
- long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths; a favorite in Britain
- tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain
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adj
verb
noun
noun
- A root vegetable.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- an aromatic flavorful vegetable
- the bulb of an onion plant
- bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
- Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
- (slang) Of a drug, an ounce.
- (4chan slang, slang) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
- The bulb of such a plant.
noun
- A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
- A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
- (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
- Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
- (chiefly UK) Lettuce.
- food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
noun
- A kind of vegetable similar to a large courgette, zucchini or squash.
- (Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
- The pith of certain plants.
- (uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
- (countable, medicine, colloquial) Bone marrow biopsy.
- (figurative) The essence; the best part.
- (figurative) The inner meaning or purpose.
- any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
- large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins
- very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones
noun
noun
- any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
- an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
- an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
- green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- street names for ketamine
- A green light used as a signal.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Any substance or pigment of a green color.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (British) A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- (theater, informal) Ellipsis of green room.
- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
adj
- not fully developed or mature; not ripe
- of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
- naive and easily deceived or tricked
- looking pale and unhealthy
- concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
- Good for the environment
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Islamist.
- (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- Having a status (as correct, ready, or safe) denoted or coded by the color green.
- (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- (Philippines, informal) Having a sexual connotation; indecent; lewd; risqué; obscene; profane.
- (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
- (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available to read for free after an embargo period.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented.
- Of a green hue.
- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (figurative) Inexperienced.
- (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
- (metallurgy) Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength.
verb
intj
noun
- any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
- Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
- Leafy plants that are used for decoration.
- Green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll.
- (military) The green dress uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
- plural of green
verb
noun
- The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
- The human body as a physical entity.
- (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
- A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
- The skin of a human or animal.
- (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
- The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
- (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
- Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
- a soft moist part of a fruit
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
verb
- (transitive) To glut.
- (transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
- (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
- (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
- To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
- remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture
noun
- any of various types of cabbage
- (uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- informal terms for money
- any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
- (slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
- A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- (by extension) Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A human head.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
verb
noun
verb
- bring onto the market or release
- cause to happen, occur or exist
- bring out for display
- bring forth or yield
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- (music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
- (transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
- (intransitive) To make or yield something.
- (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
noun
- edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
- a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
- (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
verb
noun
- plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
- Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.
- A green colour, like that of an asparagus.
- The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.
noun
- (cooking) The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.
- (cooking) The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking.
- A plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.
- any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems
- aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
- fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture
- leaves used for seasoning
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name
- (historical) A former duchy existing from 1416 to 1847, whose maximal extent included parts of modern southeastern France, northwestern Italy, and southwestern Switzerland; in full, Duchy of Savoy.
- (historical) A historical region shared between the modern countries of France, Italy and Switzerland.
- Alternative form of Savoie: A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
noun
- (chiefly British) The pods, sliced, as a vegetable.
- A climbing plant of species Phaseolus coccineus, having long bean pods.
- long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths; a favorite in Britain
- tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain
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noun
- any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- Any plant.
- 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.
- The edible part of such a plant.
- (RAF, slang, historical) A mine (explosive device).
- (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
- edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
adj
noun
- any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- Any plant.
- 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.
- The edible part of such a plant.
- (RAF, slang, historical) A mine (explosive device).
- (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
- edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
adj
- of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
- having a heading or caption
- having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination
- having a heading or course in a certain direction
- (in combination) Having hair of a specified color.
- (of hardware) Having been headed: having had a head formed (by deformation such as die-stamping).
- (in combination) Having a head or brain with specified characteristics.
- (in combination) Heading in a certain direction.
- Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top.