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The Portuguese word for vegetable is
vegetal





vegetable

Gender

The gender of vegetal is masculine. E.g. o vegetal.

Plural

The plural of vegetal is vegetais.

Portuguese Definition


vegetable
     1. Substantivo. hortaliça, vegetal



Translations for vegetable and their definitions

verdura
     1. n-f. greenness (state or quality of being green)
     2. n-f. unripeness (state or quality of being unripe)
     3. n-f. (in plural) vegetable (a plant raised for some edible part of it, excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense)


hortaliça
     1. n-f. vegetable (plant raised for leaves, roots, fruit or flowers)


legume
     1. n-m. legume (fruits of leguminous plants)
     2. n-m. (by extension) any vegetable


leguminoso
     1. adj. leguminous (relating or belonging to the Leguminosae family)


vegetal
     1. n-m. vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
     2. n-m. (figuratively) vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)
     3. adj. (relational) plant
           célula vegetal - plant cell


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