> Vegetable in a botanical sense just means "plant" No, it doesn't, and it's not a word used in botany. Vegetable isn't commonly used to refer to all plants

> Vegetable in a botanical sense just means "plant" No, it doesn't, and it's not a word used in botany. Vegetable isn't commonly used to refer to all plants as a whole, but parts of plants consumed for food. The word "vegetation" has more botanical history to it, but even that term has been long superseded by the word "flora".