green vs vegetable

vegetable vs green

green and vegetable both are nouns.

green is an adjective but vegetable is not an adjective.

green is a verb but vegetable is not a verb.

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

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

green: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
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 green include veg, veggie.

green (noun)	vegetable (noun)
street names for ketamine	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass	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
any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

green (adjective)	vegetable (adjective)
not fully developed or mature; not ripe
concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
looking pale and unhealthy
naive and easily deceived or tricked

green (verb)	vegetable (verb)
turn or become green

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