shirttail vs cloth

shirttail and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shirttail	Yes	No	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of shirttail; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than shirttail:

shirttail: fabric forming the tail of a shirt
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of shirttail include fabric, material, textile.

shirttail (noun)	cloth (noun)
fabric forming the tail of a shirt	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
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