strand vs rhizoid

strand and rhizoid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
strand	Yes	No	Yes	No
rhizoid	Yes	No	No	No

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

strand: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
rhizoid: any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc

Other hyponyms of strand include barb, cobweb, gossamer, chromatid, myofibril, myofibrilla, sarcostyle, hypha, paraphysis.

strand (noun)	rhizoid (noun)
a necklace made by stringing objects together	any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc
line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

strand (verb)	rhizoid (verb)
bring to the ground
drive (a vessel) ashore
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue