lens vs organ

lens and organ both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lens	Yes	No	No	No
organ	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, organ is a hypernym of lens; that is, organ is a word with a broader meaning than lens:

lens: biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
organ: a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

lens (noun)	organ (noun)
a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images	wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons	(music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina	a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
(metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood	a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
	a periodical that is published by a special interest group
	a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

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