garden truck, green goods, green groceries, produce - fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

rabbit food, raw vegetable - an uncooked vegetable

legume - the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

potherb - any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning

greens, leafy vegetable, green - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

solanaceous vegetable - any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum; Capsicum; Lycopersicon

root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

pieplant, rhubarb - long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened

cruciferous vegetable - a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts

squash - edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

cuke, cucumber - cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

artichoke, globe artichoke - a thistle-like flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart

artichoke heart - the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower

asparagus - edible young shoots of the asparagus plant

bamboo shoot - edible young shoots of bamboo

onion - an aromatic flavorful bulb

leek - related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves

cardoon - only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes

celery - stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning

gumbo, okra - long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

mushroom - fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

pumpkin - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

truffle, earthnut - edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber

plantain - starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics

finocchio, Florence fennel, fennel - aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads

herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests