To serve four: Peel, cut into quarters and slice very thin two or three good size yellow turnips, making about two cupfuls. Cover with boiling water and sprinkle with one-half teaspoon salt. Allow to stand eight or 10 minutes. This removes any vegetably taste. Drain.1973 January 24, Poppy Cannon, “Exotic Dishes With Plain Food”, in The Index-Journal, 54th year, number 302, Greenwood, S.C., page 22:
When I tasted it before bottling, it had a medley of sugar, woodiness and typically Chardonnay vegetably taste.1980 March 16, Roger Morris, “California catches ‘the noble (but rewarding) rot’”, in Sunday News Journal, volume 6, number 11, Wilmington, Del., page G-3:
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The interior was cramped and disappointingly tidy, disappointingly average: flour sack curtains on the screenless windows, a table, chipped and slightly canted, flanked by two mismatched chairs, a thick vegetably smell like wet grass.1981, Anthony E. Stockanes, Ladies Who Knit for a Living, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 102:
Green asparagus has a more “vegetably” taste, a bit like peas.1993, Bodo A. Schieren, Spaghetti, BDD Special Editions, →ISBN, page 32:
When the tea was ready they both drank politely and said it hit the spot, even though it wasn’t very hot and had a funny vegetably taste.1995, Diane Simmons, Dreams Like Thunder, Story Line Press, →ISBN, page 98:
It was stale, and complicated by the stench of recent exhaust smoke from the van, but persisting faintly was a sweetly rotten vegetably odour, as though the warehouse had once stored perishable goods.2002, Garry Disher, chapter 5, in Maddie Finn, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:
vegetably
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Etymology From vegetable + -ly.
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In vegetable terms, or by vegetable means.
To achieve the correct riding contact required by the precision of the sport of riding, there is no substitute for pure vegetably tanned leather - which I choose to name "naturally tanned" because no synthetic materials are used in their tanning […]1987, H. Alexander Pastene, Riding Contact, page 18:
Vegetably speaking, they'll take beans, potatoes, and tomatoes.2002, Cathryn A. Buesseler, L. E. Anderson, Recipes of a Pitchfork Ranch Hostess: