vegetable vs celery

celery vs vegetable

vegetable and celery both are nouns.

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

As nouns, celery is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, celery 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
celery: stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning

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, bamboo shoot, onion, leek, cardoon, gumbo, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, earthnut, truffle, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

vegetable (noun)	celery (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning
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	widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked

Difference between vegetable and celery

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