asparagus vs vegetable

vegetable vs asparagus

asparagus and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

asparagus: edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
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 asparagus include veg, veggie.

asparagus (noun)	vegetable (noun)
edible young shoots of the asparagus plant	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a 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

Difference between asparagus and vegetable

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