Yes. Vegetable is countable when it denotes a type of vegetable and uncountable when it denotes the overall concept of vegetables.
vegetable pronunciation English [?ved?t?bl]? American [?ved?t?bl]?
n. vegetable; vegetable man; dull, lazy man; plant
adj. planted
[ plural vegetables ]
Vocabulary collocations:
vegetable juice?Vegetable juices
vegetable garden? edible vegetable oil?
Example:A good general diet should include plenty of fresh vegetables.
A good general diet should include plenty of fresh vegetables.
Word usage:
vegetable basically means "vegetable", and can be used metaphorically to refer to a "vegetable man" who is incapacitated by an injury, illness, or abnormal condition but is still alive; it can also refer to a "man with a monotonous life". "a person who lives a monotonous life".
vegetable can also be placed before other nouns in a sentence as a determiner.