receptor vs ear

ear vs receptor

receptor and ear both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
receptor	Yes	No	No	No
ear	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ear is a hyponym of receptor; that is, ear is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than receptor:

receptor: an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
ear: the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium

Other hyponyms of receptor include lateral line, lateral line organ, enteroceptor, interoceptor, exteroceptor, pineal eye, third eye, baroreceptor, chemoreceptor, thermoreceptor, eye, oculus, optic, organ of hearing, inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth, semicircular canal, stretch receptor.

receptor (noun)	ear (noun)
an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation	the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response	the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
	good hearing
	attention to what is said
	fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

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