dye vs saffranine

saffranine vs dye

dye and saffranine both are nouns.

dye is a verb but saffranine is not a verb.

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

As nouns, saffranine is a hyponym of dye; that is, saffranine 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
saffranine: any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes

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, lac dye, lead acetate, sugar of lead, archil, cudbear, orchil, quercitron, radiopaque dye, safranin, safranine, Tyrian purple, vat color, vat dye, woad.

dye (noun)	saffranine (noun)
a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair	any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes

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

Difference between dye and saffranine

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