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Spell Bee Word: Vegetable


What does vegetable mean?

Word: Vegetable

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Vegetable means a plant, or part of a plant, that we cook or eat raw, such as a potato, spinach or brinjal.

How do you spell vegetable?

Syllables: veg - e - ta - ble

Tricky part: Most people say it in three quick beats, so the vowel in the second beat often goes missing when they write it.

Watch out for: vegtable, vegitable, vegtible

Memory tip: Clap four beats as you say it, and give the short, quiet second beat a clap of its own: it is a single e.

Vegetable in a sentence

Example 1: Mumma bought fresh vegetables from the market.

Example 2: Bhindi is my favourite vegetable.

Example 3: Eat your vegetables before you ask for dessert.

Fun Fact

A tomato is a fruit to a scientist, because it holds seeds, but cooks treat it as a vegetable.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) vegetable
b) pumkin
c) cabage
d) cucumbar

Show answer

a) vegetable. Each of the others has one slip: cabage is short of a b, pumkin has lost its p and cucumbar ends wrongly.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our school garden grew enough vejetables to fill three baskets.

a) school
b) vejetables
c) garden
d) baskets

Show answer

b) vejetables. The soft j sound here is spelt with a g, as in giant.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

bgeetlave

a) vegetable
b) vegetabel
c) vegetbale
d) vegetalbe

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a) vegetable. Only one choice ends in the ble you hear in table.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

veget_ble

a) a
b) e
c) i
d) u

Show answer

a) a. The last part of vegetable is table, with an a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a vegetable?

a) strawberry
b) cauliflower
c) watermelon
d) pineapple

Show answer

b) cauliflower

2. Which part of the plant is a carrot?

a) stem
b) leaf
c) flower
d) root

Show answer

d) root

Associated Words

outrageousglaciercareastonishhumorous
regretremoveserenebeneficialpaintbrush

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