veggie vs leafy vegetable

leafy vegetable vs veggie

veggie and leafy vegetable both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
veggie	Yes	No	No	No
leafy vegetable	Yes	No	No	No

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

veggie: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
leafy vegetable: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Other hyponyms of veggie include julienne, julienne vegetable, rabbit food, raw vegetable, legume, potherb, green, greens, 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, plantain, fennel, finocchio, Florence fennel.

veggie (noun)	leafy 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 leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Difference between veggie and leafy vegetable

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