vegetable vs leek

leek vs vegetable

vegetable and leek both are nouns.

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

As nouns, leek is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, leek 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
leek: related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves

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

vegetable (noun)	leek (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
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	plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum

Difference between vegetable and leek

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