composite vs dusty miller

dusty miller vs composite

composite and dusty miller both are nouns.

composite is an adjective but dusty miller is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
composite	Yes	Yes	No	No
dusty miller	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dusty miller is a hyponym of composite; that is, dusty miller is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than composite:

composite: considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers
dusty miller: shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum

Other hyponyms of composite include compass flower, compass plant, everlasting, everlasting flower, Anthemis cotula, dog fennel, mayweed, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweed, Anthemis tinctoria, dyers' chamomile, golden marguerite, yellow chamomile, Anthemis arvensis, corn chamomile, corn mayweed, field chamomile, Chrysanthemum maximum, Leucanthemum maximum, oxeye daisy, Chrysanthemum maximum maximum, Leucanthemum superbum, shasta daisy, Chrysanthemum lacustre, Leucanthemum lacustre, Pyrenees daisy, Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum, silver-lace, silver lace, Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum, golden buttons, scented fern, Tanacetum vulgare, tansy, crown-beard, crown beard, crownbeard.

composite (noun)	dusty miller (noun)
a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts	herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant
considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers	shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
	stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves
	a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust
	an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers

composite (adjective)	dusty miller (adjective)
of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae
consisting of separate interconnected parts

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