vegetable vs greens

greens vs vegetable

vegetable and greens both are nouns.

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

As nouns, greens is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, greens 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
greens: 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, green, 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)	greens (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
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 greens

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