legume vs veggie

veggie vs legume

legume and veggie both are nouns.

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

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

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

legume (noun)	veggie (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
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

Difference between legume and veggie

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