gumbo vs veg

gumbo and veg both are nouns.

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

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

gumbo: long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
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 gumbo include vegetable, veggie.

gumbo (noun)	veg (noun)
a soup or stew thickened with okra pods	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

Difference between gumbo and veg

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