shears vs tinsnips

shears and tinsnips both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shears	Yes	No	No	No
tinsnips	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of shears include clipper, pruning shears, snips, thinning shears.

shears (noun)	tinsnips (noun)
large scissors with strong blades	(plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal