vegetable vs spinach

spinach vs vegetable

vegetable and spinach both are nouns.

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

As nouns, spinach is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, spinach is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than vegetable:

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
spinach: southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves

Other hyponyms of vegetable include beet, Beta vulgaris, common beet, prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea, artichoke, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus, globe artichoke, cardoon, Cynara cardunculus.

vegetable (noun)	spinach (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
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	southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves

Difference between vegetable and spinach

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