cuke vs veg

cuke and veg both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cuke	Yes	No	No	No
veg	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, veg is a hypernym of cuke; that is, veg is a word with a broader meaning than cuke:

cuke: cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
veg: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Other hypernyms of cuke include vegetable, veggie.

cuke (noun)	veg (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