artichoke vs vegetable

artichoke and vegetable both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
artichoke	Yes	No	No	No
vegetable	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, vegetable is a hypernym of artichoke; that is, vegetable is a word with a broader meaning than artichoke:

artichoke: a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart
vegetable: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Other hypernyms of artichoke include veg, veggie.

As nouns, vegetable is a hypernym of artichoke; that is, vegetable is a word with a broader meaning than artichoke:

artichoke: Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head
vegetable: 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

artichoke (noun)	vegetable (noun)
a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head	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