pumpkin vs vegetable

vegetable vs pumpkin

pumpkin and vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

pumpkin: usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
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 pumpkin include veg, veggie.

pumpkin (noun)	vegetable (noun)
usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes	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

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