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greens vs vegetable

vegetable vs greens

greens and vegetable both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
greens Yes No No No
vegetable Yes No No No
As nouns, vegetable is a hypernym of greens; that is, vegetable is a word with a broader meaning than greens:
  • greens: 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 greens include veg, veggie.
greens (noun) vegetable (noun)
any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables 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 greens and vegetable

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