garnet vs almandine

garnet and almandine both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
garnet	Yes	No	No	No
almandine	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, almandine is a hyponym of garnet; that is, almandine is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than garnet:

garnet: any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
almandine: a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate

Other hyponyms of garnet include almandite, andradite, carbuncle, cinnamon stone, essonite, hessonite, pyrope, rhodolite.

garnet (noun)	almandine (noun)
any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive	a purple variety of the ruby spinel
	a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate