Wikipedia also notes a third “culinary” usage, where “vegetable” means “any edible part of a plant with a savory flavor”; I’m not sure what that even means—presumably the usage of “savory” is not the colloquial one!
It basically means the kind of plants that you use in a main dish in traditional cooking.
You can use apples in a salad but you don’t serve spaghetti with apple soup.
It basically means the kind of plants that you use in a main dish in traditional cooking.
You can use apples in a salad but you don’t serve spaghetti with apple soup.