spectral color vs olive

olive vs spectral color

spectral color and olive both are nouns.

spectral color is not an adjective while olive is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spectral color	Yes	No	No	No
olive	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, olive is a hyponym of spectral color; that is, olive is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than spectral color:

spectral color: a color that has hue
olive: a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation

Other hyponyms of spectral color include red, redness, orange, orangeness, salmon, yellow, yellowness, blond, blonde, green, greenness, viridity, blue, blueness, purple, purpleness, pink, brown, brownness, pastel, complementary, complementary color.

spectral color (noun)	olive (noun)
a color that has hue	a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation
	one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
	evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits
	small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
	hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork

spectral color (adjective)	olive (adjective)
	of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

Difference between spectral color and olive

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