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Comment author: ChristianKl 11 September 2013 11:21:27AM 0 points [-]

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.