leafy vegetable vs vegetable

vegetable vs leafy vegetable

leafy vegetable and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

leafy vegetable: 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 leafy vegetable include veg, veggie.

leafy vegetable (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 leafy vegetable and vegetable

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