pleurodont vs beast

pleurodont and beast both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pleurodont	Yes	No	No	No
beast	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beast is a hypernym of pleurodont; that is, beast is a word with a broader meaning than pleurodont:

pleurodont: an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets
beast: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of pleurodont include animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna.

pleurodont (noun)	beast (noun)
an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
	a cruelly rapacious person