potherb vs vegetable

vegetable vs potherb

potherb and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

potherb: any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning
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 potherb include veg, veggie.

potherb (noun)	vegetable (noun)
any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
	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

Difference between potherb and vegetable

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