vegetable vs legume

legume vs vegetable

vegetable and legume both are nouns.

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

As nouns, legume is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, legume 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
legume: the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

Other hyponyms of vegetable include julienne, julienne vegetable, rabbit food, raw vegetable, 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, gumbo, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, earthnut, truffle, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

vegetable (noun)	legume (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
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	an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
	the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case

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