dirt vs Indian red

Indian red vs dirt

dirt and Indian red both are nouns.

dirt is an adjective but Indian red is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dirt	Yes	Yes	No	No
Indian red	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Indian red is a hyponym of dirt; that is, Indian red is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dirt:

dirt: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
Indian red: a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment

Other hyponyms of dirt include marl, regosol, residual clay, residual soil, surface soil, topsoil, subsoil, undersoil, alluvial soil, bog soil, clay, clunch, desert soil, desertic soil, caliche, hardpan, fuller's earth, gilgai soil, gumbo, gumbo soil, humus, indurated clay, laterite, loam, loess, mold, mould, clay, mud, bole, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil, prairie soil, sand, sedimentary clay, silt, boulder clay, till, tundra soil, wiesenboden.

dirt (noun)	Indian red (noun)
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people	a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians
anything regarded as making something unclean	a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock	a red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics
obscene terms for feces

dirt (adjective)	Indian red (adjective)
(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel

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