plantain vs veg

veg vs plantain

plantain and veg both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plantain	Yes	No	No	No
veg	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, veg is a hypernym of plantain; that is, veg is a word with a broader meaning than plantain:

plantain: starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
veg: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Other hypernyms of plantain include vegetable, veggie.

plantain (noun)	veg (noun)
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally

Difference between plantain and veg

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