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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheGogmagog" data-source="post: 4207245" data-attributes="member: 27702">Must have rolled a 1 on my Intelligence check.  Even after you answered it, I don't think I've heard the term applied to all plant matter.  Probably one of those questions on 'Are you Smarter than a 5th grader' that 95% of the world has heard of.I even checked Wikipedia, which had an even narrower definition as the edible part of the plant and the more narrow definitions.  Looking over the entry it does mention half way down: "Vegetable is also used as a literary term for any plant: vegetable matter, vegetable kingdom. It comes from Latin vegetabilis (animated) and from vegetare (enliven)... The word vegetable was first recorded in print in English in the 14th century. The meaning of "plant grown for food" was not established until the 18th century."</blockquote>