Roget's Thesaurus

#367. 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, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum etc. 371. 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. 51; 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].