veg vs legume

veg and legume both are nouns.

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

As nouns, legume is a hyponym of veg; that is, legume is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than veg:

veg: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
legume: the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

Other hyponyms of veg include julienne, julienne vegetable, rabbit food, raw vegetable, potherb, green, greens, leafy vegetable, solanaceous vegetable, root vegetable, pieplant, rhubarb, cruciferous vegetable, squash, cucumber, cuke, artichoke, globe artichoke, artichoke heart, asparagus, bamboo shoot, onion, leek, cardoon, celery, gumbo, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, earthnut, truffle, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

veg (noun)	legume (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
	an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
	the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

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