cucumber vs vegetable

vegetable vs cucumber

cucumber and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

cucumber: cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
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 cucumber include veg, veggie.

cucumber (noun)	vegetable (noun)
cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit	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 cucumber and vegetable

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