# vegetably
## English
### Etymology 1

From vegetable +‎ -y.

#### Alternative forms

* vegetabley

#### Adjective

vegetably (comparative more vegetably, superlative most vegetably)
* Resembling or characteristic of vegetables.
** 1973 January 24, Poppy Cannon, “Exotic Dishes With Plain Food”, in The Index-Journal, 54th year, number 302, Greenwood, S.C., page 22: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.
** 1980 March 16, Roger Morris, “California catches ‘the noble (but rewarding) rot’”, in Sunday News Journal, volume 6, number 11, Wilmington, Del., page G-3:When I tasted it before bottling, it had a medley of sugar, woodiness and typically Chardonnay vegetably taste.
** 1981, Anthony E. Stockanes, Ladies Who Knit for a Living, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 102: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.
** 1993, Bodo A. Schieren, Spaghetti, BDD Special Editions, →ISBN, page 32:Green asparagus has a more “vegetably” taste, a bit like peas.
** 1995, Diane Simmons, Dreams Like Thunder, Story Line Press, →ISBN, page 98: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.
** 2002, Garry Disher, chapter 5, in Maddie Finn, Hachette Australia, →ISBN: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.
** 2006 September 20, Joe Stumpe, “Bagged spinach would be missed by this cook”, in The Wichita Eagle, page 3: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).
** 2007, Corinne Squire, HIV in South Africa: Talking About the Big Thing, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 23:It had a pleasant, vegetably taste, and lasted two years in my fridge before fermenting.
** 2009 February 26, The Brew Guru, “From top suds to duds: The Brew Guru breaks down the best ways to get good beer for less buck”, in Green Bay Press-Gazette, page 11:This ugly cousin to Bud has an immediate vegetably, grassy taste, even ice-cold.
** 2010, Polly Bradshaw, chapter 30, in The Language of Lies, AUK Books, →ISBN: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.
** 2015, Jules Janick, Ian Warrington, “Ethics and Horticulture”, in Prem Nath, editor, Agriculture and Food Technology in Human Life, Scientific Publishers, →ISBN, page 14: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.
** 2018, Andy Riley, King Flashypants and the Creature from Crong, Hodder Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 164: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 …

### Etymology 2

From vegetable +‎ -ly.

#### Adverb

vegetably (not comparable)
* In vegetable terms, or by vegetable means.
** 1987, H. Alexander Pastene, Riding Contact, page 18: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 […]
** 2002, Cathryn A. Buesseler, L. E. Anderson, Recipes of a Pitchfork Ranch Hostess:Vegetably speaking, they'll take beans, potatoes, and tomatoes.