veggie

veg·gie also veg·ie  (vj)

n. Informal

A vegetable.

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veggie Informal

Noun

1. a vegetable

2. a vegetarian

Adjective

vegetarian: a veggie cookbook

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant veg, vegetable garden truck, green goods, green groceries, produce - fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market julienne, julienne vegetable - a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish) rabbit food, raw vegetable - an uncooked vegetable legume - the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) potherb - any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning greens, leafy vegetable, green - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables solanaceous vegetable - any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers pieplant, rhubarb - long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened cruciferous vegetable - a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts squash - edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable cuke, cucumber - cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons artichoke, globe artichoke - a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart artichoke heart - the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower asparagus - edible young shoots of the asparagus plant bamboo shoot - edible young shoots of bamboo onion - an aromatic flavorful vegetable leek - related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves cardoon - only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes celery - stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning gumbo, okra - long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews mushroom - fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi pumpkin - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn truffle, earthnut - edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber plantain - starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics finocchio, Florence fennel, fennel - aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests