VEG

vegetable, veggie, veg

(noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Shortened form of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

Adjective

veg (not comparable)

vegetarian

Noun

veg (plural vegs or veges or veg)

(colloquial) vegetable.

Usage notes

• In colloquial speech this is usually pluralized simply as "veg."

• In writing this may or may not be followed by a period to mark it as an abbreviation.

Synonyms

• veggie

Verb

veg (third-person singular simple present veges or vegges, present participle veging or vegging, simple past and past participle veged or vegged)

(colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest

Etymology 2

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens,

Noun

veg (plural vegs)

(psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.

Anagrams

• GeV

Source: Wiktionary



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The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.

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