legume vs vegetable

vegetable vs legume

legume and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

legume: the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
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 legume include veg, veggie.

legume (noun)	vegetable (noun)
the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae	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
the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

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