vegetable vs onion

onion vs vegetable

vegetable and onion both are nouns.

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

As nouns, onion is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, onion 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
onion: an aromatic flavorful vegetable

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

vegetable (noun)	onion (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	an aromatic flavorful 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	bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
	the bulb of an onion plant

Difference between vegetable and onion

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