vegetable vs green groceries

green groceries vs vegetable

vegetable and green groceries both are nouns.

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

As nouns, green groceries is a hypernym of vegetable; that is, green groceries is a word with a broader 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 groceries: fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market

Other hypernyms of vegetable include garden truck, green goods, produce.

vegetable (noun)	green groceries (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
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 green groceries

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