Dictionary of foods
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- A noun the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen; the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet; the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation; (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA; one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose); any of several fat soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes
- Aavakaaya
- Acacia holosericea
- Acalypha bipartita
- Acalypha ciliata
- Acalypha fruticosa
- Acalypha indica
- Acalypha ornata
- Ackee noun red pear shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe
- Acmella oleracea
- Adoration tomato
- Adzuki bean noun bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds
- Aegopodium podagraria
- Aerva lanata
- Agbioeletric
- Al Hachi
- Alaria esculenta
- Alaria
- Alb Leisa
- Alfalfa noun leguminous plant grown for hay or forage; important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
- Allanblackia oil
- Alliaria petiolata
- Allium fistulosum noun Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions
- Allium tricoccum noun North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- Allium tuberosum noun a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum
- Allium chinense
- Allium omeiense
- Allium subhirsutum
- Allium tuncelianum
- Alocasia fornicata
- Alternanthera sessilis
- Amaranth oil
- Amaranth noun any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food; seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America
- Amaranthus caudatus noun young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal
- Amaranthus acanthochiton
- Amaranthus blitoides
- Amaranthus dubius
- Amaranthus viridis
- Amazing Tater
- Ambadi seed oil
- Ammannia senegalensis
- Amorphophallus abyssinicus
- Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
- Amur cork tree fruit oil
- Animal adj. of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals; marked by the appetites and passions of the body; noun a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- Apios americana noun a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
- Apium prostratum
- Appaloosa bean
- Apple seed oil
- Apple noun fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh; native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
- Apricot oil
- Arab salad
- Arachis hypogaea noun widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
- Aralia elata noun deciduous clump forming Asian shrub or small tree; adventive in the eastern United States
- Aralia spinosa noun small deciduous clump forming tree or shrub of eastern United States
- Aralia cordata
- Arame noun an edible seaweed with a mild flavor
- Arctium lappa noun burdock having heart shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use
- Arctium noun burdock
- Argentina anserina
- Arkansas Traveler tomato
- Armenian cucumber
- Arracacia xanthorrhiza
- Arrowroot noun white flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch; a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant; canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained
- Arthropodium cirratum
- Arthropodium minus
- Arthropodium
- Artichoke oil
- Artichoke noun a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart; Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head
- Asclepias subverticillata noun milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock
- Ascophyllum noun brown algae distinguished by compressed or inflated branchlets along the axis
- Asparagopsis taxiformis
- Asparagus bean noun South American bean having very long succulent pods
- Asparagus noun edible young shoots of the asparagus plant; plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- Asplenium bulbiferum
- Atriplex hortensis noun Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America
- Atriplex powellii
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
- Aureobasidium pullulans
- Avocado oil
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- Baba ghanoush
- Babassu oil noun fatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil
- Baby carrot
- Baby corn
- Backyard Farms
- Balanos oil
- Bamboo shoot noun edible young shoots of bamboo
- Bamboo noun woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture; the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles
- Bamia
- Bananaman
- Bananas in Pyjamas
- Barbarea verna noun of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida
- Barbarea noun biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress
- Baron von Lemon
- Basella alba
- Bean noun any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food; any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods; any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans; informal terms for a human head; verb hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball
- Beefsteak tomato noun any of several large tomatoes with thick flesh
- Beet vascular necrosis
- Beetroot noun beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption; round red root vegetable
- Ben oil
- Bertolli
- Beta vulgaris noun biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
- Better Boy
- Bigilla
- Bioeffector
- Biryani noun an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables
- Bistorta bistortoides
- Blaby Special
- Black Krim
- Black adzuki bean
- Black eyed pea
- Black turtle bean
- Blackcurrant seed oil
- Bladderpod oil
- Blitum bonus henricus
- Blitum californicum
- Blitum capitatum
- Blitum virgatum
- Bok choy noun elongated head of dark green leaves on thick white stalks; Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves
- Bomdong
- Borage seed oil
- Borage noun leaves flavor sauces and punches; young leaves eaten in salads or cooked; hairy blue flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach
- Borneo tallow nut oil
- Borscht noun a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation
- Brassica juncea noun Asiatic mustard used as a potherb
- Brassica nigra noun widespread Eurasian annual plant cultivated for its pungent seeds; a principal source of table mustard
- Brassica rapa noun widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
- Brassica 'Petit Posy
- Brassica carinata
- Breadfruit noun a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts; native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
- Broad bean noun Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder
- Broccoflower
- Broccoli slaw
- Broccoli noun branched green undeveloped flower heads; plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds
- Broccolini
- Brominated vegetable oil
- Brussels sprout noun plant grown for its stout stalks of edible small green heads resembling diminutive cabbages
- Buffalo gourd oil
- Bunium bulbocastanum
- Burchardia congesta
- Burchardia umbellata
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- Cabbage roll
- Cabbage noun any of various types of cabbage; any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers; informal terms for money; verb make off with belongings of others
- Caesar salad noun typically having fried croutons and dressing made with a raw egg
- Cajanus cajan noun tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics
- Cajanus scarabaeoides
- Calabash noun a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd; tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds; round gourd of the calabash tree; bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd; Old World climbing plant with hard shelled bottle shaped gourds as fruits
- Calabaza
- Calathea allouia
- Caldo verde
- Calendula officinalis noun the common European annual marigold
- Callophyllis variegata
- Calypso bean
- Camassia quamash noun plant having a large edible bulb and linear basal leaves and racemes of light to deep violet blue star shaped flowers on tall green scapes; western North America
- Camassia noun genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs
- Campanula rapunculus noun bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad
- Campari tomato
- Canavalia gladiata noun twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food
- Candlenut oil
- Canola oil noun vegetable oil made from rapeseed
- Canolol
- Caprese salad
- Capsella bursa pastoris
- Capsicum noun any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers; chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers
- Caragana arborescens noun large spiny shrub of eastern Asia having clusters of yellow flowers; often cultivated in shelterbelts and hedges
- Caraway noun leaves used sparingly in soups and stews; a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed
- Cardoon noun only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes; southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots
- Carob pod oil
- Carob noun powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute; evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob; long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
- Carpobrotus edulis noun low growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
- Carrot juice noun usually freshly squeezed juice of carrots
- Carrot seed oil
- Carrot noun promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"; orange root; important source of carotene; perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions; deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
- Carter Green
- Cassava noun any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch; cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca; a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
- Castile soap noun a good hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
- Catjang
- Caulerpa lentillifera
- Caulerpa
- Cauliflower noun compact head of white undeveloped flowers; a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds
- Celebrity tomato
- Celeriac noun thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant; grown for its thickened edible aromatic root
- Celery noun stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning; widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked
- Celosia argentea noun weedy annual with spikes of silver white flowers
- Celosia trigyna
- Celosia noun annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
- Celtuce noun leaves having celery like stems eaten raw or cooked; lettuce valued especially for its edible stems
- Cercospora melongenae
- Chaerophyllum bulbosum
- Chamaedorea tepejilote
- Chard noun long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves; beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
- Chayote
- Chengiopanax sciadophylloides
- Chenopodiastrum murale
- Chenopodium album noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
- Chenopodium berlandieri
- Chenopodium californicum
- Chenopodium fremontii
- Chenopodium giganteum
- Chenopodium nuttalliae
- Cherokee purple
- Cherry tomato noun small red to yellow tomatoes; plant bearing small red to yellow fruit
- Cherry pit oil
- Chervil noun fresh ferny parsley like leaves used as a garnish with chicken and veal and omelets and green salads and spinach; aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads
- Chickpea noun large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried; Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds; the seed of the chickpea plant
- Chicory noun crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste; root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee; perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads; the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute
- Chile relleno
- Chiles en nogada
- Chili pepper noun very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency; plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
- Chili oil
- Chinese cabbage noun elongated head of crisp celery like stalks and light green leaves; plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia
- Chinese yam noun hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart shaped cinnamon scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers
- Chonggak radish
- Choy sum
- Chrism noun a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam
- Chrysanthemum noun any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated; the flower of a chrysanthemum plant
- Chwinamul
- Cicer arietinum noun Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds
- Cicer noun chickpea plant; Asiatic herbs
- Cipolla di Giarratana
- Cipollino
- Cladosiphon okamuranus
- Cladosporium cucumerinum
- Claytonia perfoliata
- Cleome gynandra
- Cnidoscolus aconitifolius
- Coccinia grandis
- Cochlearia noun a genus of the family Cruciferae
- Cocklebur oil
- Cocktail onion
- Cocoa butter noun the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate; a yellow white fat from cocoa beans
- Coconut oil noun oil from coconuts
- Cohune oil noun semisolid fat from nuts of the cohune palm; used in cooking and soap making
- Cole noun coarse curly leafed cabbage; a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
- Collard noun variety of kale having smooth leaves
- Colocasia esculenta noun herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves
- Colocasia gigantea
- Colza oil noun edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant
- Commelina benghalensis
- Commelina ensifolia
- Confit byaldi
- Conopodium majus
- Cooking banana
- Copaiba noun an oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments
- Corchorus olitorius
- Corchorus noun widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia; any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute
- Cordia noun tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
- Cordyline australis noun elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand
- Cordyline fruticosa
- Corn chowder noun chowder containing corn
- Corn oil noun oil from the germs of corn grains
- Cottonseed oil noun edible oil pressed from cottonseeds
- Cowpea noun sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure; fruit or seed of the cowpea plant; eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
- Crambe maritima noun perennial of coastal sands and shingles of northern Europe and Baltic and Black Seas having racemes of small white flowers and large fleshy blue green leaves often used as potherbs
- Crambe oil
- Crassocephalum biafrae
- Crassocephalum crepidioides
- Crassocephalum rubens
- Crassocephalum
- Creamed corn
- Crithmum
- Crotalaria longirostrata
- Croton oil noun viscid acrid brownish yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action
- Cruciferous vegetables
- Crudit
- Cubanelle
- Cucumber juice
- Cucumber noun cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons; a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
- Cucumis anguria
- Cuphea oil
- Cyclanthera pedata
- Cymbopetalum costaricense
- Cymbopetalum penduliflorum
- Cyperus esculentus noun European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
- Cyrtosperma merkusii
- Daikon noun radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked
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- Dalda
- Dalea lasiathera
- Danish oil
- Dark opal basil
- Datil pepper
- Daylily noun any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lilylike flowers that bloom for only a day
- Decalepis hamiltonii
- Detarium microcarpum
- Detarium senegalense
- Dichopogon strictus
- Didymella pinodella
- Didymella pinodes
- Dioscorea bulbifera noun yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers
- Dioscorea elephantipes noun South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
- Dioscorea japonica
- Dioscorea transversa
- Dioscorea zingiberensis
- Diplazium esculentum
- Diplotaxis tenuifolia noun yellow flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places; an adventive weed in North America
- Dragon tongue bean
- Durvillaea antarctica
- Dysphania ambrosioides
- Dysphania botrys
- Ecklonia cava
- Ecklonia stolonifera
- Eddoe
- Edible flower
- Edible plant stem
- Edible seaweed
- Efo riro
- Eleocharis dulcis noun Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb shaped tubers
- Elephant garlic
- Ellachipur Sanman
- Ema datshi
- Endive noun widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched; variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges
- Ensete noun Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas
- Eruca vesicaria
- Erysiphe cruciferarum
- Erysiphe heraclei
- Erythrina edulis
- Erythronium japonicum
- Erythronium noun perennial bulbous herbs most of northern United States: dogtooth violet; adder's tongue; trout lily; fawn lily
- Espelette pepper
- European cucumber
- Fabes de la Granja
- Factice
- False flax oil
- Fat choy
- Fava bean noun shell beans cooked as lima beans; seed of the broad bean plant
- Fennel noun fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture; leaves used for seasoning; aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads; any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems
- Fenugreek production in India
- Fenugreek noun aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry; annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry
- Fiddlehead fern noun New World fern having woolly cinnamon colored spore bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
- Field pea noun coarse small seeded pea often used as food when young and tender; variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage; seed of the field pea plant
- Filippo Berio
- Fino verde basil
- Flageolet bean
- Flat bean
- Foliar feeding
- Fourth of July tomato
- Fried cauliflower
- Fritillaria camschatcensis
- Frozen vegetables
- Fruit and vegetable wash
- Fruit of the Loom Guys
- Fucus vesiculosus noun a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
- Ful medames
- Fusarium culmorum
- Fusarium incarnatum
- Fusarium oxysporum f
- Fusarium oxysporum f
- Fusarium oxysporum f
- Fusarium oxysporum f
- Fusarium pallidoroseum
- Fusarium proliferatum
- Fusarium redolens
- Fusarium solani f
- Fusicladium pisicola
- Gado gado
- Gai lan
- Galilee Green
- Gaplek
- Garcinia pedunculata
- Garden cress noun cress cultivated for salads and garnishes
- Garden cress oil
- Garlic noun aromatic bulb used as seasoning; bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong flavored cloves
- Geechee red pea
- Gegeol radish
- Geitonoplesium
- Genetically modified soybean
- Genovese basil
- Ghormeh sabzi
- Giardiniera
- Gim
- Ginger oil
- Gising gising
- Glasswort salad
- Glebionis coronaria
- Glycine max noun erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil rich seeds; native to Asia
- Gnetum africanum
- Gobi Manchurian
- Goji
- Golden samphire
- Goma ae
- Gongura
- Gracilaria
- Grape seed oil
- Grape tomato
- Greek salad
- Green bean noun immature bean pod eaten as a vegetable; a common bean plant cultivated for its slender green edible pods
- Green Giant
- Green Zebra
- Green bean casserole
- Green laver
- Green papaya salad
- Guacamole noun a dip made of mashed avocado mixed with chopped onions and other seasonings
- Guajillo chili
- Guar noun drought tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material
- Gynura bicolor
- Gynura procumbens
- Hablitzia
- Halimione portulacoides
- Hanover tomato
- Hazelnut oil
- Heart of palm
- Helicobasidium purpureum
- Hemerocallis minor
- Hemp oil
- Heterodera cajani
- Heterodera rosii
- Hijiki
- Hillbilly tomato
- Hodge Podge
- Honey locust noun tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
- Hoplolaimus magnistylus
- Hoplolaimus seinhorsti
- Hoplolaimus uniformis
- Horseradish noun grated horseradish root; coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root; the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning
- Houttuynia cordata
- Humulus noun hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae
- Hungry gap
- Hydnocarpus wightiana seed oil
- Hymenopappus filifolius
- Hypochaeris radicata noun European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears
- Hypochaeris chillensis
- Ifco tray
- Index of organic food articles
- Indian lettuce noun a plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant tasting leaves
- Inga edulis noun ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America
- Inga feuillei
- Inocarpus fagifer
- International Grains Council
- Ipomoea aquatica
- Israeli salad
- Jack Pumpkinhead
- Jack o' lantern
- Jalape
- Jalape
- Janssons frestelse
- January King cabbage
- Japanese radish noun radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked
- Jersey cabbage
- Jerusalem artichoke noun sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips; tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers; edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke
- Jingtang Lotus Roots
- Jojoba oil
- Jute noun a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo Saxons; a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks
- Kaipen
- Kale noun coarse curly leafed cabbage; a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head; informal terms for money
- Kalette
- Kalimeris indica
- Kambuzi
- Kandmool
- Kapok seed oil
- Kelp noun large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds
- Kenaf seed oil
- Ketchup as a vegetable
- Kidney bean noun large dark red bean; usually dried; the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney shaped beans)
- Kinilnat
- Kiveve
- Knieperkohl
- Kohlrabi noun fleshy turnip shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant; plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip shaped edible stem
- Kokoro
- Kokum oil
- Komatsuna
- Kombu
- Konjac
- Korean radish
- Kosambari
- Kusum oil
- Kwacoco
- Kwirk
- Lablab purpureus noun perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
- Lablab noun one species: hyacinth bean
- Lacinato kale
- Lactuca tatarica
- Ladera
- Lallemantia oil
- Laminaria digitata
- Lampreado
- Lao eggplant
- Lathyrus japonicus noun wild pea of seashores of north temperate zone having tough roots and purple flowers and useful as a sand binder
- Lathyrus sativus noun European annual grown for forage; seeds used for food in India and for stock elsewhere
- Lathyrus tuberosus noun European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey
- Lathyrus aphaca
- Laverbread
- Le Puy green lentil
- Leaf celery
- Leaf vegetable
- Leek noun related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark green leaves; plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
- Legume noun the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils); an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae; the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case
- Lens culinaris noun widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder
- Lentil noun round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food; widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder; the fruit or seed of a lentil plant
- Leontodon taraxacoides
- Leopoldia comosa
- Lepidium meyenii
- Lepidium oleraceum
- Lettuce leaf basil
- Lettuce sandwich
- Lettuce noun leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa; any of various plants of the genus Lactuca; informal terms for money
- Leucaena leucocephala noun low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods
- Leucanthemum vulgare noun tall leafy stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
- Leveillula taurica
- Lilium lancifolium noun east Asian perennial having large reddish orange black spotted flowers with reflexed petals
- Lilium davidii
- Lilium noun type genus of Liliaceae
- Lillian's Yellow
- Lima bean noun broad flat beans simmered gently; never eaten raw; bush or tall growing bean plant having large flat edible seeds; bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds
- Limnocharis flava
- Limnophila aromatica
- Limu
- Linseed oil noun a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints
- List of bamboo species
- List of crop plants pollinated by bees
- List of juices
- List of leaf vegetables
- List of macerated oils
- List of non starchy vegetables
- List of plants known as arugula
- List of root vegetables
- List of vegetable dishes
- List of vegetable oils
- List of vegetables
- Little Pine
- Lomatium
- Lotus root
- Luffa acutangula noun loofah of Pakistan; widely cultivated throughout tropics
- Luffa aegyptiaca
- Luffa noun any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge; the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
- Lupin bean
- Lupinus luteus noun yellow flowered European lupine cultivated for forage
- Lycium barbarum noun deciduous erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches and violet purple flowers followed by orange red berries; southeastern Europe to China
- Lycium chinense
- Lysimachia clethroides
- Macrotyloma uniflorum noun twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
- Macrotyloma geocarpum
- Madame Jeanette
- Maerua oblongifolia
- Maize noun a strong yellow color; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre Columbian times
- Malva sylvestris noun erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy purple flowers; introduced in United States
- Malva pusilla
- Mammoth basil
- Mangelwurzel
- Mango oil
- Maple slaw
- Maque choux
- Maranta arundinacea
- Marrow noun the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones; large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins; very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones; any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh; the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- Marrowfat peas
- Marsilea crenata
- Mashed carrots
- Matt's Wild Cherry
- Mattar paneer
- Matteuccia noun small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae
- Meadowfoam seed oil
- Medusa pepper
- Meigan cai
- Melientha
- Meloidogyne chitwoodi
- Meloidogyne enterolobii
- Melothria scabra
- Meristotheca papulosa
- Mesembryanthemum crystallinum noun Old World annual widely naturalized in warm regions having white flowers and fleshy foliage covered with hairs that resemble ice
- Mesquite noun any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar
- Microgreen
- Microseris lanceolata
- Ming'oko
- Mirabilis jalapa noun common garden plant of North America having fragrant red or purple or yellow or white flowers that open in late afternoon
- Mirabilis expansa
- Miracle noun a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of God; any amazing or wonderful occurrence
- Mixed pickle
- Mizuna
- Mojette beans
- Momordica charantia noun tropical Old World vine with yellow orange fruit
- Monostroma kuroshiense
- Morinda citrifolia
- Moringa oleifera
- Morogo
- Mr noun a form of address for a man
- Mr noun a form of address for a man
- Mr noun a form of address for a man
- Mucuna pruriens
- Mukti
- Mulato pepper
- Mulukhiyah
- Munch Bunch
- Mung bean noun erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
- Mung bean sprout
- Mustard oil noun oil obtained from mustard seeds and used in making soap
- Mustard plant
- Mycocentrospora acerina
- Myoga
- Nacobbus aberrans
- Naga Viper pepper
- Nagabon
- Nagkesar seed oil
- Napa cabbage
- Nasturtium floridanum
- Nasturtium microphyllum
- Neem oil
- Nelumbo nucifera noun native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers
- Nepalese cocoyam
- Neptunia oleracea
- New Mexico chile
- Nopal noun any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea resembling prickly pears; cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits
- Nori
- Northern root knot nematode
- Nozawana
- Nufar basil
- Nymphoides aquatica
- Oenanthe javanica
- Oilseed press
- Okra seed oil
- Okra noun tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus; long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant; long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
- Olericulture
- Olhuala
- Olive pomace oil
- Onion ring
- Onion noun an aromatic flavorful bulb; bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb; edible bulb of an onion plant
- Onion noun an aromatic flavorful bulb; bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb; edible bulb of an onion plant
- Orange oil
- Ordinaire
- Organic beans
- Organic coffee
- Organic fish
- Organic food culture
- Organic food
- Organic fulfilment
- Organic infant formula
- Organic milk
- Organic movement
- Organic wild
- Organic wine
- Oriental pickling melon
- Ornithogalum pyrenaicum noun Old World star of Bethlehem having edible young shoots
- Osmin purple basil
- Osmundea pinnatifida
- Outline of organic gardening and farming
- Oxalis tuberosa noun South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
- Oxalis enneaphylla
- Pachyrhizus erosus noun Central American twining plant with edible roots and pods; large tubers are eaten raw or cooked especially when young and young pods must be thoroughly cooked; pods and seeds also yield rotenone and oils
- Pachyrhizus ahipa
- Pachyrhizus noun small genus of tropical vines having tuberous roots
- Palm kernel oil
- Palmaria palmata
- Pao cai
- Parkia javanica noun tall evergreen rain forest tree with wide spreading crown having yellow white flowers; grown as an ornamental in parks and large gardens
- Parkia speciosa
- Parkia timoriana
- Parkinsonia florida noun densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium
- Parkinsonia microphylla
- Parsley noun aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food; annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves
- Parsnip noun whitish edible root; eaten cooked; a strong scented plant cultivated for its edible root; the whitish root of cultivated parsnip
- Pasta primavera
- Pattypan squash noun round greenish white squash having one face flattened with a scalloped edge; squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white
- Pea noun seed of a pea plant used for food; a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds; the fruit or seed of a pea plant
- Peanut oil noun a oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap
- Peanut adj. of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; noun pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms; a young child who is small for his age; widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground; underground pod of the peanut vine
- Peanut adj. of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; noun pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms; a young child who is small for his age; widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground; underground pod of the peanut vine
- Pearl onion
- Pecan oil
- Pectobacterium carotovorum
- Pediomelum cuspidatum
- Pediomelum hypogaeum
- Penicillium aurantiogriseum
- Pepper dulse
- Pepper weevil
- Pequi oil
- Pequin pepper
- Perennial vegetable
- Perideridia gairdneri
- Perilla oil
- Peronospora destructor noun fungus causing a downy mildew on onions
- Peronospora farinosa
- Peronospora viciae
- Persicaria perfoliata
- Petasites japonicus
- Petroravenia eseptata
- Phaseolus coccineus noun tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain
- Phaseolus vulgaris noun the common annual twining or bushy bean plant grown for its edible seeds or pods
- Phaseolus acutifolius
- Phlomoides tuberosa
- Pholisma sonorae
- Phoma cucurbitacearum
- Phoma exigua var
- Phoma nebulosa
- Phomopsis javanica
- Phomopsis sclerotioides
- Phulwara oil
- Phyllosticta cucurbitacearum
- Physalis peruviana noun annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
- Physalis pruinosa noun stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
- Phytolacca americana noun tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
- Phytolacca noun type genus of Phytolaccaceae: pokeweed
- Phytophthora capsici
- Phytophthora nicotianae
- Phytophthora phaseoli
- Piccalilli noun relish of chopped pickled cucumbers and green peppers and onion
- Pickled cucumber
- Pico de gallo
- Pig Goat Banana Cricket
- Pigeon pea noun tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics; small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon pea plant
- Pikopiko
- Pilu oil
- Pine nut oil
- Pinquito bean
- Pinto bean noun mottled or spotted bean of southwestern United States; usually dried
- Piper sarmentosum
- Piquillo pepper
- Pistachio oil
- Pisum noun small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas
- Pithecellobium dulce noun common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum
- Plantago major noun common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed
- Plantago coronopus
- Plantago noun type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs
- Plectranthus amboinicus noun an aromatic fleshy herb of India and Ceylon to South Africa; sometimes placed in genus Plectranthus
- Plectranthus edulis
- Plectranthus esculentus
- Plectranthus rotundifolius
- Plectranthus noun any of various ornamental plants of the genus Plectranthus
- Pleospora herbarum
- Plum tomato noun oblong cherry tomato; a kind of cherry tomato that has an oblong shape
- Poblano
- Pochas
- Pod corn
- Pod vegetable
- Podosphaera fuliginea
- Podosphaera fusca
- Polpettone di melanzane
- Polystichum richardii
- Pomato
- Pongamia oil
- Poppyseed oil
- Porphyra haitanensis
- Porphyra noun a genus of protoctist
- Portulaca oleracea noun weedy trailing mat forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan
- Posola
- Postelsia palmaeformis
- Postelsia
- Pot liquor noun the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
- Potato Head
- Potato onion
- Potato noun an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland; annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
- Price Foundation
- Price look up code
- Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
- Pringlea
- Produce noun fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market; verb create or manufacture a man made product; bring forth or yield; cause to happen, occur or exist; bring out for display; bring onto the market or release; come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- Prosopis glandulosa noun thorny deep rooted drought resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets
- Prosopis pubescens noun shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods
- Prosopis alba
- Prosopis nigra
- Prosopis velutina
- Prune kernel oil
- Pseudomonas tomato
- Pseudoperonospora cubensis
- Psoralea esculenta noun densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots
- Pterocarpus soyauxii
- Pueraria montana var
- Pulaka
- Pumpkin seed oil
- Pumpkin noun usually large pulpy deep yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn; a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
- Puntarelle
- Pure Indian Foods
- Purple ruffles basil
- Pyropia columbina
- Pyropia tenera
- Pyropia
- Quinoa oil
- Quinoa
- Radicchio noun prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves
- Radichetta
- Radish noun pungent fleshy edible root; Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw; pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants; radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked; a cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root
- Ralstonia solanacearum
- Ramtil oil
- Rapeseed oil noun edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant
- Rapeseed noun seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil
- Rapini
- Ratatouille
- Raw linseed oil
- Red cabbage noun compact head of purplish red leaves; cabbage plant with a compact head of reddish purple leaves
- Red rubin basil
- Reichardia
- Relish noun the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth; spicy or savory condiment; vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment; verb derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
- Restaurant Nora
- Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes
- Reynoutria japonica
- Reynoutria sachalinensis
- Rheum ribes
- Rhubarb noun plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous; long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
- Rice bran oil
- Ricing
- Rojak
- Romaine lettuce noun lettuce with long dark green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head; lettuce with long dark green spoon shaped leaves
- Romanesco broccoli
- Rose hip seed oil
- Roselle noun East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- Rutabaga noun the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food; a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
- Sabzi khordan
- Saccharina japonica
- Saccharum edule
- Sacha inchi oil
- Safflower oil noun oil from seeds of the safflower plant; oil from safflower seeds used as food as well as in medicines and paints
- Safflower noun thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil
- Safterei
- Sagittaria latifolia
- Sagittaria platyphylla
- Sagittaria rigida
- Sagittaria sagittifolia
- Sagittaria noun genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers
- Sakurab
- Sakurajima radish
- Salad oils
- Salade ni
- Salicornia oil
- Salsa noun spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods
- Salsola soda noun bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
- Salsola komarovii
- Samlar kakou
- Samlar machu
- Samphire noun fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
- Sanguisorba minor
- Santa Fe Grande pepper
- Santorini tomato
- Sapote oil
- Sauropus androgynus
- Savoy cabbage noun head of soft crinkly leaves; cabbage plant with a compact head of crinkled leaves
- Scallion noun young onion before the bulb has enlarged; plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
- Scarlet eggplant
- Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
- Scorzonera hispanica noun perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots
- Sea lettuce noun seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
- Sea Island red pea
- Sea beet
- Sea buckthorn oil
- Seaweed noun plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae
- Seidlitzia rosmarinus
- Senate bean soup
- Senna siamea
- Senna tora
- Septoria cucurbitacearum
- Sesame oil noun oil obtained from sesame seeds
- Sesamum radiatum
- Sesbania grandiflora noun a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies
- Sesbania bispinosa
- Seseli libanotis
- Shallot noun small mild flavored onion like or garlic like clustered bulbs used for seasoning; type of onion plant producing small clustered mild flavored bulbs used as seasoning; aggregated bulb of the multiplier onion
- Shea butter
- Shishito
- Shoepeg corn
- Shorea robusta seed oil
- Sicilian orange salad
- Sinabawang gulay
- Siraegi
- Sissoo spinach
- Sium sisarum noun an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root
- Smilax noun fragile twining plant of South Africa with bright green flattened stems and glossy foliage popular as a floral decoration; sometimes placed in Smilacaceae
- Snap pea noun variety of pea plant producing peas having crisp rounded edible pods
- Snow pea noun green peas with flat edible pods; variety of pea plant producing peas having thin flat edible pods
- Snowball seed oil
- Soil steam sterilization
- Solanum aethiopicum
- Solanum pimpinellifolium
- Solanum sisymbriifolium
- Solanum torvum
- Solo garlic
- Sonchus oleraceus noun annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
- Sonchus asper
- Sonchus noun sow thistles
- Sorana bean
- Sorrel soup
- Sorrel adj. of a light brownish color; noun a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color; large sour tasting arrowhead shaped leaves used in salads and sauces; East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber; any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine; any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
- Soybean oil noun oil from soya beans
- Soybean sprout
- Soybean noun most highly proteinaceous vegetable crop known; erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil rich seeds; native to Asia; a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
- Spicy globe basil
- Spinach salad
- Spinach noun dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads; southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
- Split pea noun dried hulled pea; used in soup
- Spreewald gherkins
- Spring greens
- Sprouted bread
- Sprouting noun the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
- Spud's Adventure
- Square One Organic Vodka
- Stachys affinis
- Stealth ownership
- Stellaria media noun a common low growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so called because it is eaten by chickens
- Stellaria noun common chickweed; stitchwort
- Stemphylium lycopersici
- Stemphylium solani
- Stemphylium vesicarium
- Stillingia oil
- Straightneck squash
- Stripey
- Suan cai
- Sugar beet noun white rooted beet grown as a source of sugar; form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained
- Sukuma wiki
- Sunflower oil noun oil from sunflower seeds
- Super Sweet 100
- Sweet corn noun corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft; a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating
- Sweet potato noun the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States; pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh; egg shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
- Sweet Dani basil
- Sweet potato pie
- Sweet sour and spicy vegetable gravy
- Tabbouleh noun a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat
- Tacca leontopetaloides noun perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch
- Tacca ankaranensis
- Tacca chantrieri
- Tacca integrifolia
- Talinum fruticosum
- Tall oil noun an oil derived from wood pulp and used in making soaps or lubricants
- Tamanu oil
- Tamarind noun large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys; long lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate colored acidic pulp
- Taramira oil
- Taraxacum officinale noun Eurasian plant widely naturalized as a weed in North America; used as salad greens and to make wine
- Taraxacum albidum
- Taraxacum noun an asterid dicot genus of the family Compositae including dandelions
- Tarkari
- Taro noun tropical starchy tuberous root; herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves; edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
- Tatsoi
- Tea seed oil
- Telfairia occidentalis
- Telosma cordata
- Tetragonia tetragonoides
- Texas caviar
- Thai eggplant
- The California Raisin Show
- The California Raisins
- The Flaming Carrot
- The Fruitties
- The Garden Gang
- The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
- The Poddington Peas
- The Straw
- Theeyal
- Three Sisters tomato
- Tinda
- Tomaccio
- Tomatillo noun small edible yellow to purple tomato like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk; annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes; Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
- Tomato juice noun the juice of tomatoes (usually bottled or canned)
- Tomato Adventure
- Tomato omelette
- Tomato seed oil
- Tomato soup
- Tomberry
- Tomkin tomato
- Tonka bean oil
- Toona sinensis
- Tragopogon porrifolius noun Mediterranean biennial herb with long stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States
- Tragopogon noun genus of Old World herbs with linear entire leaves and yellow or purple flower heads
- Tree onion noun type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers
- Trichosanthes cucumerina
- Trichosanthes dioica
- Trichosanthes pilosa
- Trifolium incarnatum noun southern European annual with spiky heads of crimson flower; extensively cultivated in United States for forage
- Trigonella caerulea
- Tropaeolum majus noun strong growing annual climber having large flowers of all shades of orange from orange red to yellowish orange and seeds that are pickled and used like capers
- Tropaeolum tuberosum
- Tung oil noun a yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree
- Turmeric juice
- Turnip cake
- Turnip noun root of any of several members of the mustard family; widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
- Tylosema esculentum
- Types of plant oils
- Typha angustifolia noun reed maces of America, Europe, North Africa, Asia
- Typha orientalis
- Typha noun reed maces; cattails
- Ucuhuba seed oil
- Ugeoji
- Ulam
- Ullucus
- Ulocladium consortiale
- Ulva intestinalis
- Ulva lactuca
- Ulva linza
- Ulva paschima
- Undhiyu
- Unusually shaped vegetable
- Urtica dioica noun perennial Eurasian nettle established in North America having broad coarsely toothed leaves with copious stinging hairs
- Urtica incisa
- Urtica massaica
- Utica greens
- V8
- Valerianella locusta noun widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed
- Vankai
- Vateria indica oil
- Vegetable oil noun any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
- Vegetable soup noun soup made with a variety of vegetables
- Vegetable bouquet
- Vegetable box scheme
- Vegetable chip
- Vegetable juice
- Vegetable oil fuel
- Vegetable oils as alternative energy
- Vegetable sandwich
- Vegetable adj. of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants; noun edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant; any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- Vegetable adj. of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants; noun edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant; any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- Vegetarian chili
- VeggieTales
- Vernolic acid
- Vernonia galamensis
- Vichyssoise noun a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold
- Vicia faba noun Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder
- Vigna aconitifolia noun East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods; used especially in India for food and forage and as a soil conditioner; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
- Vigna mungo
- Vigna subterranea
- Vigna umbellata
- Vine sweet mini peppers
- Viola noun a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower; large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions; any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
- Wakame
- Waldorf salad noun typically made of apples and celery with nuts or raisins and dressed with mayonnaise
- Water spinach
- Watercress adj. of a moderate yellow green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green; noun cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams; any of several water loving cresses
- Watermelon seed oil
- Wattleseed
- Wax gourd
- Waxy corn
- Wesson cooking oil
- Weston A
- Wet market
- Wheat germ oil
- Wheat sprout
- White onion
- Wild rice noun grains of aquatic grass of North America; perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
- Winged bean noun a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics
- Winter greens
- World Carrot Museum
- Wrack noun dried seaweed especially that cast ashore; the destruction or collapse of something; growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp; verb smash or break forcefully
- Xanthosoma sagittifolium noun tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes
- Xanthosoma brasiliense
- Xanthosoma caracu
- Xanthosoma noun tropical American tuberous perennials
- Ya cai
- Yac
- Yam noun edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world wide for food; sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked; any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots; edible tuber of any of several yams
- Yarrow oil
- Yellow cassava
- Yellow grease
- Yellow onion
- Yeolmu
- Zanthoxylum ailanthoides
- Zha cai
- Zizania latifolia
- Zopfia rhizophila
- Zucchini noun small cucumber shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green; marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small
- a noun the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen; the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet; the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation; (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA; one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose); any of several fat soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes
- alga noun primitive chlorophyll containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
- algae noun primitive chlorophyll containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
- algam
- and the Bean
- asparagi
- betae
- beverage noun any liquid suitable for drinking
- cooking noun the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
- exigua
- food noun any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue; anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking; any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
- lentis
- lobata noun ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage; body compressed vertically having two large oral lobes and four pointed processes
- n noun the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet; (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter; a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes; the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees; a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues
- o popper
- o noun the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens; the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet; a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
- oil noun oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist; a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water; any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants; verb cover with oil, as if by rubbing; administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
- oise
- organisation noun the act of forming something; the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business; an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; an organized structure for arranging or classifying; a group of people who work together; the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- pisi
- pisi
- plant noun a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; buildings for carrying on industrial labor; something planted secretly for discovery by another; an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience; verb put firmly in the mind; place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; place into a river; fix or set securely or deeply; set up or lay the groundwork for
- plant noun a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; buildings for carrying on industrial labor; something planted secretly for discovery by another; an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience; verb put firmly in the mind; place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; place into a river; fix or set securely or deeply; set up or lay the groundwork for
- plant noun a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; buildings for carrying on industrial labor; something planted secretly for discovery by another; an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience; verb put firmly in the mind; place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; place into a river; fix or set securely or deeply; set up or lay the groundwork for
- restaurant noun a building where people go to eat
- s noun the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet; (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm; the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees; an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions); 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- salad noun food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
- sauce noun flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food; verb add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; dress (food) with a relish; behave saucy or impudently towards
- seaweed noun plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae
- soup noun liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food; an unfortunate situation; any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup; verb dope (a racehorse)
- sp
- sp
- sp
- sp
- sp
- the Coal
- the Vegetable Man
- vegetable adj. of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants; noun edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant; any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- vegetable adj. of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants; noun edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant; any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- vegetable adj. of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants; noun edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant; any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
- wine bar noun a bar that serves only wine
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