horse vs pony

horse and pony both are nouns.

horse is a verb but pony is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
horse	Yes	No	Yes	No
pony	Yes	No	No	No

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

horse: solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
pony: a range horse of the western United States

Other hyponyms of horse include roan, stable companion, stablemate, gee-gee, dawn horse, eohippus, mesohippus, protohippus, male horse, female horse, mare, mount, riding horse, saddle horse, polo pony, wild horse, hack, hack, jade, nag, plug, bangtail, race horse, racehorse, steeplechaser, stalking-horse, harness horse, workhorse, post-horse, post horse, poster, pacer, high stepper, stepper, chestnut, liver chestnut, bay, sorrel, palomino, pinto.

horse (noun)	pony (noun)
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times	any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder
a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)	a range horse of the western United States
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed	an informal term for a racehorse
a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs	a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
troops trained to fight on horseback	a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

horse (verb)	pony (verb)
provide with a horse or horses

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