sorrel vs leafy vegetable

leafy vegetable vs sorrel

sorrel and leafy vegetable both are nouns.

sorrel is an adjective but leafy vegetable is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No
leafy vegetable	Yes	No	No	No

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

sorrel: large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
leafy vegetable: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Other hypernyms of sorrel include green, greens.

sorrel (noun)	leafy vegetable (noun)
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color	any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

sorrel (adjective)	leafy vegetable (adjective)
of a light brownish color

Difference between sorrel and leafy vegetable

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