third eye vs sensory receptor

third eye and sensory receptor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
third eye	Yes	No	No	No
sensory receptor	Yes	No	No	No

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

third eye: a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles
sensory receptor: an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation

Other hypernyms of third eye include receptor, sense organ.

third eye (noun)	sensory receptor (noun)
a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles	an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation