cotton vs gauze bandage

cotton and gauze bandage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cotton	Yes	No	Yes	No
gauze bandage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gauze bandage is a hyponym of cotton; that is, gauze bandage is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cotton:

cotton: fabric woven from cotton fibers
gauze bandage: (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings

Other hyponyms of cotton include gauze.

cotton (noun)	gauze bandage (noun)
fabric woven from cotton fibers	(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
thread made of cotton fibers
erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

cotton (verb)	gauze bandage (verb)
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