veggie vs root vegetable

root vegetable vs veggie

veggie and root vegetable both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of veggie 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.

veggie (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

Difference between veggie and root vegetable

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