vegetable vs asparagus

asparagus vs vegetable

vegetable and asparagus both are nouns.

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

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

vegetable: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
asparagus: edible young shoots of the asparagus plant

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

vegetable (noun)	asparagus (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	edible young shoots of the asparagus 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	plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable

Difference between vegetable and asparagus

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