apple butter vs conserve

apple butter and conserve both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
apple butter	Yes	No	No	No
conserve	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, conserve is a hypernym of apple butter; that is, conserve is a word with a broader meaning than apple butter:

Other hypernyms of apple butter include conserves, preserve, preserves.

apple butter (noun)	conserve (noun)
thick dark spicy puree of apples	fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

apple butter (verb)	conserve (verb)
	preserve with sugar
	use cautiously and frugally
	keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
	keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change