protriptyline vs tricyclic

protriptyline and tricyclic both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
protriptyline	Yes	No	No	No
tricyclic	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tricyclic is a hypernym of protriptyline; that is, tricyclic is a word with a broader meaning than protriptyline:

protriptyline: tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression
tricyclic: an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain

Other hypernyms of protriptyline include tricyclic antidepressant, tricyclic antidepressant drug.

protriptyline (noun)	tricyclic (noun)
tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression	an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain