dyestuff vs lac dye

lac dye vs dyestuff

dyestuff and lac dye both are nouns.

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

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

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, 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.

dyestuff (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

Difference between dyestuff and lac dye

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