Equus caballus vs sorrel

sorrel vs Equus caballus

Equus caballus and sorrel both are nouns.

Equus caballus is not an adjective while sorrel is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Equus caballus	Yes	No	No	No
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, sorrel is a hyponym of Equus caballus; that is, sorrel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Equus caballus:

Equus caballus: solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
sorrel: a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color

Other hyponyms of Equus caballus include roan, stable companion, stablemate, gee-gee, dawn horse, eohippus, mesohippus, protohippus, male horse, female horse, mare, mount, riding horse, saddle horse, pony, polo pony, wild horse, hack, hack, jade, nag, plug, pony, bangtail, race horse, racehorse, steeplechaser, stalking-horse, harness horse, workhorse, post-horse, post horse, poster, pacer, high stepper, stepper, chestnut, liver chestnut, bay, palomino, pinto.

Equus caballus (noun)	sorrel (noun)
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times	a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
	large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
	any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
	any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
	East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

Equus caballus (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

Difference between Equus caballus and sorrel

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