vegetable vs pumpkin

pumpkin vs vegetable

vegetable and pumpkin both are nouns.

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

As nouns, pumpkin is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, pumpkin 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
pumpkin: usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

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, earthnut, truffle, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

vegetable (noun)	pumpkin (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
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 coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes

Difference between vegetable and pumpkin

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