Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Vegetable

Nouns
  • vegetable, vegetable kingdom
  • flora, verdure. plant
  • tree, shrub, bush
  • creeper
  • herb, herbage
  • grass. annual
  • perennial, biennial, triennial
  • exotic. timber, forest
  • wood, woodlands
  • timberland
  • hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney
  • underwood, brushwood
  • scrub
  • boscage, bosk, chaparal, motte [U.S.]
  • arboretum etc. [The economy or management of plants.] Agriculture. bush, jungle, prairie
  • heath, heather
  • fern, bracken
  • furze, gorse, whin
  • grass, turf
  • pasture, pasturage
  • turbary
  • sedge, rush, weed
  • fungus, mushroom, toadstool
  • lichen, moss, conferva, mold
  • growth
  • alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan
  • blow, blowth
  • floret, petiole
  • pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia. foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella
  • spray etc. Part
  • leaf. flower, blossom, bine
  • flowering plant
  • timber tree, fruit tree
  • pulse, legume.
Adjectives
  • vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous
  • herbaceous, herbal
  • botanic
  • sylvan, silvan
  • arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical
  • woody, grassy
  • verdant, verdurous
  • floral, mossy
  • lignous, ligneous
  • wooden, leguminous
  • vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy
  • endogenous, exogenous.
Phrases
  • green-robed senators of mighty woods" [Keats]
  • this is the forest primeval" [Longfellow].