visible radiation vs friar's lantern

friar's lantern vs visible radiation

visible radiation and friar's lantern both are nouns.

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

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

visible radiation: (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 radiation 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 radiation (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 radiation and friar's lantern

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