zooplankton vs brute

zooplankton and brute both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
zooplankton	Yes	No	No	No
brute	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, brute is a hypernym of zooplankton; that is, brute is a word with a broader meaning than zooplankton:

zooplankton: animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae
brute: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of zooplankton include animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna.

zooplankton (noun)	brute (noun)
animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
	a cruelly rapacious person

zooplankton (adjective)	brute (adjective)
	resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility