sensory receptor vs organ

organ vs sensory receptor

sensory receptor and organ both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sensory receptor	Yes	No	No	No
organ	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, organ is a hypernym of sensory receptor; that is, organ is a word with a broader meaning than sensory receptor:

sensory receptor: an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
organ: a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

sensory receptor (noun)	organ (noun)
an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation	wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
	(music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
	a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
	a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
	a periodical that is published by a special interest group
	a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

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