bunchberry vs cornel

bunchberry and cornel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bunchberry	Yes	No	No	No
cornel	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cornel is a hypernym of bunchberry; that is, cornel is a word with a broader meaning than bunchberry:

bunchberry: creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
cornel: a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers

Other hypernyms of bunchberry include dogwood, dogwood tree.

bunchberry (noun)	cornel (noun)
creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska	a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers