dye vs anil

dye and anil both are nouns.

dye is a verb but anil is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dye	Yes	No	Yes	No
anil	Yes	No	No	No

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

dye: a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
anil: a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically

Other hyponyms of dye include acid dye, alizarin yellow, indigo, indigotin, aniline dye, azo dye, basic color, basic colour, basic dye, blue, blueing, bluing, bromophenol blue, bromphenol blue, tetrabromo-phenolsulfonephthalein, bromothymol blue, bromthymol blue, cochineal, cyanine dye, direct dye, substantive dye, fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein, fluorochrome, hair coloring, hair dye, tint, Kendal, Kendal green, lac dye, lead acetate, sugar of lead, archil, cudbear, orchil, quercitron, radiopaque dye, saffranine, safranin, safranine, Tyrian purple, vat color, vat dye, woad.

dye (noun)	anil (noun)
a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair	shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye
	a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically

dye (verb)	anil (verb)
color with dye
color for microscopic study

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