hair vs mane

hair and mane both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hair	Yes	No	No	No
mane	Yes	No	No	No

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

hair: a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
mane: long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck

Other hyponyms of hair include coat, pelage, guard hair, forelock, foretop, beard, body hair, down, pile, head of hair, cowlick, coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle, lock, facial hair, bush, crotch hair, pubic hair, brow, eyebrow, supercilium, cilium, eyelash, lash.

hair (noun)	mane (noun)
a filamentous projection or process on an organism	long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments	growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
a very small distance or space

Difference between hair and mane

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