chlorophyte vs laver

chlorophyte and laver both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chlorophyte	Yes	No	No	No
laver	Yes	No	No	No

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

chlorophyte: algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water
laver: seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds

Other hyponyms of chlorophyte include sea lettuce, pond scum, spirogyra, stonewort, desmid.

chlorophyte (noun)	laver (noun)
algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water	(Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
	seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
	edible red seaweeds