vegetable vs root vegetable

root vegetable vs vegetable

vegetable and root vegetable both are nouns.

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

As nouns, root vegetable is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, root vegetable 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
root vegetable: any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

Other hyponyms of vegetable include julienne, julienne vegetable, rabbit food, raw vegetable, legume, potherb, green, greens, leafy vegetable, solanaceous 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)	root vegetable (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
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

Difference between vegetable and root vegetable

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