disaccharide vs maltose

disaccharide and maltose both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
disaccharide	Yes	No	No	No
maltose	Yes	No	No	No

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

disaccharide: any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
maltose: a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches

Other hyponyms of disaccharide include lactose, milk sugar, malt sugar, saccharose, sucrose.

disaccharide (noun)	maltose (noun)
any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis	a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches