cruciferous vegetable vs vegetable

vegetable vs cruciferous vegetable

cruciferous vegetable and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

cruciferous vegetable: a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens, various cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts
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 cruciferous vegetable include veg, veggie.

cruciferous vegetable (noun)	vegetable (noun)
a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens, various cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
	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 cruciferous vegetable and vegetable

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