vegetable vs cucumber

cucumber vs vegetable

vegetable and cucumber both are nouns.

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

As nouns, cucumber is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, cucumber 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
cucumber: cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

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, cuke, artichoke, globe artichoke, artichoke heart, asparagus, bamboo shoot, onion, leek, cardoon, celery, gumbo, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, earthnut, truffle, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

vegetable (noun)	cucumber (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
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	a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit

Difference between vegetable and cucumber

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