fleur-de-lis vs blue flag

blue flag vs fleur-de-lis

fleur-de-lis and blue flag both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fleur-de-lis	Yes	No	No	No
blue flag	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, blue flag is a hyponym of fleur-de-lis; that is, blue flag is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fleur-de-lis:

fleur-de-lis: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
blue flag: a common iris of the eastern United States having blue or blue-violet flowers; root formerly used medicinally

Other hyponyms of fleur-de-lis include bearded iris, beardless iris, bulbous iris, dwarf iris, Iris cristata, gladdon, gladdon iris, Iris foetidissima, roast beef plant, stinking gladwyn, stinking iris, Iris persica, Persian iris, Iris pseudacorus, yellow flag, yellow iris, yellow water flag, dwarf iris, Iris verna, vernal iris, Iris versicolor, Iris virginica, southern blue flag, English iris, Iris xiphioides.

fleur-de-lis (noun)	blue flag (noun)
(heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris	a common iris of the eastern United States having blue or blue-violet flowers; root formerly used medicinally
plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

Difference between fleur-de-lis and blue flag

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