arum vs amylum

arum and amylum both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
arum	Yes	No	No	No
amylum	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, amylum is a hypernym of arum; that is, amylum is a word with a broader meaning than arum:

arum: starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root
amylum: a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

Other hypernyms of arum include starch.

arum (noun)	amylum (noun)
any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe	a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles
starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root

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