yellow colicroot vs colicroot

yellow colicroot and colicroot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
yellow colicroot	Yes	No	No	No
colicroot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, colicroot is a hypernym of yellow colicroot; that is, colicroot is a word with a broader meaning than yellow colicroot:

yellow colicroot: colicroot with yellow-bracted racemose flowers; smaller than Aletris farinosa; southeastern United States
colicroot: any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic

Other hypernyms of yellow colicroot include colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root.

yellow colicroot (noun)	colicroot (noun)
colicroot with yellow-bracted racemose flowers; smaller than Aletris farinosa; southeastern United States	any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic