vegetable vs bamboo shoot

bamboo shoot vs vegetable

vegetable and bamboo shoot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vegetable	Yes	No	No	No
bamboo shoot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bamboo shoot is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, bamboo shoot 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
bamboo shoot: edible young shoots of bamboo

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, asparagus, onion, leek, cardoon, celery, gumbo, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, earthnut, truffle, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

vegetable (noun)	bamboo shoot (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 bamboo
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 vegetable and bamboo shoot

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