percussive instrument vs clappers

clappers vs percussive instrument

percussive instrument and clappers both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
percussive instrument	Yes	No	No	No
clappers	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, clappers is a hyponym of percussive instrument; that is, clappers is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than percussive instrument:

percussive instrument: a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another
clappers: (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

Other hyponyms of percussive instrument include bones, castanets, finger cymbals, bell, chime, gong, cymbal, drum, membranophone, tympan, glockenspiel, orchestral bells, gong, tam-tam, kettle, kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanum, lagerphone, maraca, marimba, xylophone, forte-piano, piano, pianoforte, rain stick, steel drum, triangle, vibes, vibraharp, vibraphone, electronic drum kit, electronic drum set.

percussive instrument (noun)	clappers (noun)
a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another	(used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

Difference between percussive instrument and clappers

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