vegetable vs plantain

plantain vs vegetable

vegetable and plantain both are nouns.

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

As nouns, plantain is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, plantain 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
plantain: starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics

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, gumbo, okra, mushroom, pumpkin, earthnut, truffle, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

vegetable (noun)	plantain (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
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	a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
	any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally

Difference between vegetable and plantain

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