visible light vs friar's lantern

friar's lantern vs visible light

visible light and friar's lantern both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
visible light	Yes	No	No	No
friar's lantern	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, friar's lantern is a hyponym of visible light; that is, friar's lantern is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than visible light:

visible light: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
friar's lantern: a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground

Other hyponyms of visible light include beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, candle flame, candlelight, corona, counterglow, gegenschein, daylight, firelight, fluorescence, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, gaslight, glow, glowing, radiance, glow, half-light, glow, incandescence, lamplight, luminescence, meteor, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, moonshine, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight, twilight.

visible light (noun)	friar's lantern (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground

Difference between visible light and friar's lantern

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