dogtooth vs yellow adder's tongue

yellow adder's tongue vs dogtooth

dogtooth and yellow adder's tongue both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dogtooth	Yes	No	No	No
yellow adder's tongue	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, yellow adder's tongue is a hyponym of dogtooth; that is, yellow adder's tongue is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dogtooth:

dogtooth: perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated
yellow adder's tongue: eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors

Other hyponyms of dogtooth include blonde lilian, Erythronium albidum, white dog's-tooth violet, white dogtooth violet, amberbell, Erythronium americanum, trout lily, Erythronium dens-canis, European dogtooth, Erythronium californicum, fawn lily, Erythronium grandiflorum, glacier lily, snow lily.

dogtooth (noun)	yellow adder's tongue (noun)
a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England	eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors
one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated

Difference between dogtooth and yellow adder's tongue

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