produce vs vegetable

produce

noun
  • Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms. 

  • Livestock and pet food supplies. 

  • That which is produced. 

  • Offspring. 

verb
  • To extend an area, or lengthen a line. 

  • To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate. 

  • To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection. 

  • To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public. 

  • To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing. 

vegetable

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. 

  • A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state. 

  • Any plant. 

  • The edible part of such a plant. 

adj
  • Of or relating to plants. 

  • Of or relating to vegetables. 

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