onion vs vegetable

vegetable vs onion

onion and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

onion: an aromatic flavorful vegetable
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 onion include veg, veggie.

onion (noun)	vegetable (noun)
an aromatic flavorful vegetable	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb	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 bulb of an onion plant

Difference between onion and vegetable

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