The singular form esparrago is used to refer to asparagus as a plant, while the plural is used for asparagus as a food. The English word comes from the Spanish avocado, which is no spanish bean stew widely used. In other contexts, a tallo is a stem or stalk. Many of the Spanish names for cabbage-related vegetables include col, which comes from the Latin caulis and is a cognate of the “cole” in “coleslaw.

The Spanish word can also refer to the plant itself, not just the root. Pepino can also refer to various types of small melons. The word literally means “lion’s tooth. Because the Spanish b and v have the same pronunciation, the two variations are pronounced alike. Semilla is the word for seed.

The singular form espinaca is used to refer to spinach as a plant, while the plural is used for spinach as a food. Not all vegetables are classified identically in the two languages. For example, not all the coles are thought of by most English speakers as cabbages, and not all beans would be thought of by Spanish speakers as habas. Also, as in English, names of some vegetables can vary with region or because of how they’re prepared. A vegetarian diet can be referred to as a régimen vegetariano or dieta vegetariana, and a vegetarian is a vegetariano or vegetariana. A vegan is a vegetariano estricto, although the term may not be understood in all places without an explanation. Following is a selection of verbs used in discussing methods of preparing vegetables.