leek vs vegetable

vegetable vs leek

leek and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

leek: related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
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 leek include veg, veggie.

leek (noun)	vegetable (noun)
related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum	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 leek and vegetable

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