Taxodium mucronatum vs cypress

Taxodium mucronatum and cypress both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Taxodium mucronatum	Yes	No	No	No
cypress	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cypress is a hypernym of Taxodium mucronatum; that is, cypress is a word with a broader meaning than Taxodium mucronatum:

Taxodium mucronatum: cypress tree of river valleys of Mexican highlands
cypress: any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones

Other hypernyms of Taxodium mucronatum include cypress tree.

Taxodium mucronatum (noun)	cypress (noun)
cypress tree of river valleys of Mexican highlands	any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
	wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus