mushroom vs vegetable

vegetable vs mushroom

mushroom and vegetable both are nouns.

mushroom is a verb but vegetable is not a verb.

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

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

mushroom: fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
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 mushroom include veg, veggie.

mushroom (noun)	vegetable (noun)
fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)	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
common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium

mushroom (verb)	vegetable (verb)
grow and spread fast
pick or gather mushrooms

Difference between mushroom and vegetable

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