vegetable garden
12
1.0
- noun
- /ˈvɛdʒtəbl ˈɡɑrdən/
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- Every summer, we cultivate a small vegetable garden in our backyard where we grow tomatoes and peppers.
- plant a vegetable garden
- vegetable garden and flowers
If you allow weeds to grow freely in your vegetable garden, the weeds can try to rob your crops of nutrients.
- If you allow weeds to grow freely in your vegetable garden, the weeds can try to rob your crops of nutrients.
- We all love quick cause and effect and yet the most natural thing in the universe is plant to see the day and months later you have a vegetable garden.
Examples
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We built a latrine and a hut and planted a vegetable garden.
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If I want a vegetable garden, I'll plant it myself.
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And he built a vegetable garden yesterday.
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Have you seen the vegetable garden?
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I took the path past the vegetable garden and along the lake.
Fiction book (1999) -
Of course, this raised bed vegetable garden is doing beautifully too.
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I have to add extra lime to my vegetable garden and lawn because of them.
Blog text (26) -
We found him spading a vegetable garden behind it.
Fiction book (2002) -
CAROLYN JOHNSON, a sixteen-year-old girl, steps out from the vegetable garden with an arm full of vegetables.
Fiction book (1995) -
Without employment or income, this impoverished group cultivated vegetable gardens of local crops for consumption and domestic sale.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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1.0
An area of land next to a house where people grow flowers or vegetables
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3.7
A small piece of land that people rent to grow vegetables or flowers
2
2.0
A small area in a garden where people grow vegetables
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2.6
A small area near a house where people grow vegetables and herbs for the home
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2.7
A small area where people grow vegetables for their own use
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9.9
A garden where people grow vegetables, fruit, or flowers
How Big
- UK
2
3.9
12
1.0
- UK
3
3.7
4
2.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'vegetable' (edible plants) + 'garden' (a plot for cultivation); together they describe a plot where vegetables are grown. This is a cross-linguistically common noun + noun compound pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Vegetable garden is a simple name for a small garden where people grow vegetables to eat. That's why it means 'a small area of land where vegetables are grown for their own use'.