Hyphenation of vegetable

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word vegetable? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of vegetable:

1.	Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
2.	Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower

Synonyms of vegetable:

adj	vegetable, rootlike, seedlike, stalklike, stemlike, vegetal, vegetational, vegetative
noun	veggie, produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck
noun	herb, herbaceous plant

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.