plate armour vs roundel

roundel vs plate armour

plate armour and roundel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plate armour	Yes	No	No	No
roundel	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, roundel is a hyponym of plate armour; that is, roundel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plate armour:

plate armour: specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire
roundel: round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit

Other hyponyms of plate armour include backplate, beaver, brassard, aegis, breastplate, egis, cannon, chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere, cubitiere, cuisse, epauliere, fauld, gorget, greave, jambeau, helmet, knee piece, nosepiece, palette, pallette, skirt of tasses, sabaton, solleret, tasse, tasset, tuille, visor, vizor.

plate armour (noun)	roundel (noun)
specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire	round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit
a historical type of personal armor made from iron or steel plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century.	(heraldry) a charge in the shape of a filled circle
	English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third

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