vegetable vs beet

beet vs vegetable

vegetable and beet both are nouns.

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

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

vegetable: 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
beet: biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

Other hyponyms of vegetable include Beta vulgaris, common beet, prickly-seeded spinach, spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea, artichoke, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus, globe artichoke, cardoon, Cynara cardunculus.

vegetable (noun)	beet (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	round red root vegetable
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	biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

Difference between vegetable and beet

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