amaranth vs prince's-feather

prince's-feather vs amaranth

amaranth and prince's-feather both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
amaranth	Yes	No	No	No
prince's-feather	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prince's-feather is a hyponym of amaranth; that is, prince's-feather is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than amaranth:

amaranth: any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food
prince's-feather: tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal

Other hyponyms of amaranth include Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans, tumbleweed, Amaranthus caudatus, love-lies-bleeding, tassel flower, velvet flower, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume, purple amaranth, red amaranth, Amaranthus hypochondriacus, pigweed.

amaranth (noun)	prince's-feather (noun)
any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food	annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America	tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal

Difference between amaranth and prince's-feather

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