{
    "term": "vegetable",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ve/vegetables_misc.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a plant or part of a plant that is eaten as food. Potatoes, beans and onions are all vegetables.",
            "labels": "also especially North American English, informal",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The children don't eat enough **fresh vegetables**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**root vegetables** *(= for example )"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **vegetable garden**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We grow our own vegetables."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a salad of raw vegetables"
                },
                {
                    "text": "organic vegetables"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a vegetable patch/plot"
                },
                {
                    "text": "vegetable soup"
                },
                {
                    "text": "vegetable matter *(= plants in general)*"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food", "Farming"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an offensive word for a person who is physically alive but not capable of much mental or physical activity, for example because of a serious accident or illness",
            "labels": "(offensive)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person who has a boring life",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Since losing my job I've been a vegetable."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvedʒtəbl/",
                "audio": "ve/vegetable/vegetable__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvedʒtəbl/",
                "audio": "ve/vegetable/vegetable__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘growing as a plant’): from Old French, or from late Latin vegetabilis ‘animating’, from Latin vegetare, from vegetus ‘active’, from vegere ‘be active’. The current sense dates from the late 16th cent."
}