vegetable vs gumbo

gumbo vs vegetable

vegetable and gumbo both are nouns.

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

As nouns, gumbo is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, gumbo 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
gumbo: long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

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, celery, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, earthnut, truffle, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

vegetable (noun)	gumbo (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
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	long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
	tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
	any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

Difference between vegetable and gumbo

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