vegetable vs green

green vs vegetable

vegetable and green both are nouns.

vegetable is not an adjective while green is an adjective.

vegetable is not a verb while green is a verb.

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

As nouns, green is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, green 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
green: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Other hyponyms of vegetable include julienne, julienne vegetable, rabbit food, raw vegetable, legume, potherb, 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, celery, gumbo, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, earthnut, truffle, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

vegetable (noun)	green (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	street names for ketamine
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	green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
	any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
	an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
	a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

vegetable (adjective)	green (adjective)
	not fully developed or mature; not ripe
	concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
	of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
	looking pale and unhealthy
	naive and easily deceived or tricked

vegetable (verb)	green (verb)
	turn or become green

Difference between vegetable and green

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