allegory vs maple-leaf

allegory and maple-leaf both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
allegory	Yes	No	No	No
maple-leaf	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, maple-leaf is a hyponym of allegory; that is, maple-leaf is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than allegory:

allegory (noun)	maple-leaf (noun)
a short moral story (often with animal characters)	the emblem of Canada
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea