dyestuff vs fluorescent dye

fluorescent dye vs dyestuff

dyestuff and fluorescent dye both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dyestuff	Yes	No	No	No
fluorescent dye	Yes	No	No	No

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

dyestuff: a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
fluorescent dye: a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed)

Other hyponyms of dyestuff 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, 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.

dyestuff (noun)	fluorescent dye (noun)
a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair	a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed)

Difference between dyestuff and fluorescent dye

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