vegetable vs squash

squash vs vegetable

vegetable and squash both are nouns.

vegetable is not a verb while squash is a verb.

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

As nouns, squash is a hyponym of vegetable; that is, squash 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
squash: edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a 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, 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)	squash (noun)
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant	a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
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	edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
	any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

vegetable (verb)	squash (verb)
	to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

Difference between vegetable and squash

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