desipramine vs tricyclic

desipramine and tricyclic both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
desipramine	Yes	No	No	No
tricyclic	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tricyclic is a hypernym of desipramine; that is, tricyclic is a word with a broader meaning than desipramine:

desipramine: a tricyclic antidepressant drug that activates the psychomotor system
tricyclic: an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain

Other hypernyms of desipramine include tricyclic antidepressant, tricyclic antidepressant drug.

desipramine (noun)	tricyclic (noun)
a tricyclic antidepressant drug that activates the psychomotor system	an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain