okra vs veggie

okra and veggie both are nouns.

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

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

okra: long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
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 okra include veg, vegetable.

okra (noun)	veggie (noun)
long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant

Difference between okra and veggie

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