vegetable vs herbaceous plant

herbaceous plant vs vegetable

vegetable and herbaceous plant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vegetable	Yes	No	No	No
herbaceous plant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, herbaceous plant is a hypernym of vegetable; that is, herbaceous plant is a word with a broader meaning than vegetable:

vegetable: 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
herbaceous plant: a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

Other hypernyms of vegetable include herb.

vegetable (noun)	herbaceous plant (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
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

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