methane vs paraffin series

methane and paraffin series both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
methane	Yes	No	No	No
paraffin series	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, paraffin series is a hypernym of methane; that is, paraffin series is a word with a broader meaning than methane:

methane: a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel
paraffin series: a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)

Other hypernyms of methane include gas, alkane, alkane series, methane series, paraffin.

methane (noun)	paraffin series (noun)
a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel	a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)