dye vs lac dye

dye and lac dye both are nouns.

dye is a verb but lac dye is not a verb.

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

As nouns, lac dye is a hyponym of dye; that is, lac dye 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
lac dye: scarlet dye like cochineal; extracted with alkali from stick lac

Other hyponyms of dye include acid dye, alizarin yellow, anil, 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, lead acetate, sugar of lead, archil, cudbear, orchil, quercitron, radiopaque dye, saffranine, safranin, safranine, Tyrian purple, vat color, vat dye, woad.

dye (noun)	lac dye (noun)
a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair	scarlet dye like cochineal; extracted with alkali from stick lac

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

Difference between dye and lac dye

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