Adjective
Resembling or characteristic of vegetables.
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To serve four: Peel, cut into quarters and slice very thin two or three good size yellow turnips, making about two cupfuls. Cover with boiling water and sprinkle with one-half teaspoon salt. Allow to stand eight or 10 minutes. This removes any vegetably taste. Drain.
When I tasted it before bottling, it had a medley of sugar, woodiness and typically Chardonnay vegetably taste.
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The interior was cramped and disappointingly tidy, disappointingly average: flour sack curtains on the screenless windows, a table, chipped and slightly canted, flanked by two mismatched chairs, a thick vegetably smell like wet grass.
Green asparagus has a more “vegetably” taste, a bit like peas.
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When the tea was ready they both drank politely and said it hit the spot, even though it wasn’t very hot and had a funny vegetably taste.
It was stale, and complicated by the stench of recent exhaust smoke from the van, but persisting faintly was a sweetly rotten vegetably odour, as though the warehouse had once stored perishable goods.
The earthy, vegetably taste of fresh spinach is a welcome change for someone who grew up with iceberg lettuce as his only frame of reference for leafy greens (not counting gruesome canned spinach).
It had a pleasant, vegetably taste, and lasted two years in my fridge before fermenting.
This ugly cousin to Bud has an immediate vegetably, grassy taste, even ice-cold.
He strode into the kitchen and gulped down the safe smell of fried spices and garlic from the night before – a lentilly vegetably smell that would no doubt translate itself into lentilly vegetably farts at some point today.
For example, promoting some “health” drinks as a way for children to get their vegetables (without the “vegetably” taste!!) by promising two servings of vegetables based on the presence of small amounts of tomato and potato juice, is an example of a “creative” practice.
The monster likes meaty things, like goats and sheep and emperors … And it doesn’t like vegetables. It’s just like me! So if I give it the most vegetably taste it’s ever tasted …
Adverb
In vegetable terms, or by vegetable means.
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To achieve the correct riding contact required by the precision of the sport of riding, there is no substitute for pure vegetably tanned leather - which I choose to name "naturally tanned" because no synthetic materials are used in their tanning […]
Vegetably speaking, they'll take beans, potatoes, and tomatoes.