dyestuff vs saffranine

saffranine vs dyestuff

dyestuff and saffranine both are nouns.

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

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

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

dyestuff (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

Difference between dyestuff and saffranine

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