plantain vs vegetable

vegetable vs plantain

plantain and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

plantain: starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
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 plantain include veg, veggie.

plantain (noun)	vegetable (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 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
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 vegetable

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