cheese vs ricotta

ricotta vs cheese

cheese and ricotta both are nouns.

cheese is a verb but ricotta is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheese	Yes	No	Yes	No
ricotta	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ricotta is a hyponym of cheese; that is, ricotta is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cheese:

cheese: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
ricotta: soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese

Other hyponyms of cheese include cream cheese, triple cream, triple creme, cottage cheese, farm cheese, farmer's cheese, pot cheese, process cheese, processed cheese, bleu, blue cheese, Brie, brick cheese, Camembert, American cheese, Armerican cheddar, cheddar, cheddar cheese, Cheshire cheese, double Gloucester, Edam, chevre, goat cheese, Gouda, Gouda cheese, grated cheese, hand cheese, Liederkranz, Limburger, mozzarella, Muenster, Parmesan, quark, quark cheese, string cheese, Swiss cheese, Velveeta.

cheese (noun)	ricotta (noun)
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk	soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese
erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

cheese (verb)	ricotta (verb)
wind onto a cheese
used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)

Difference between cheese and ricotta

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