chaparral vs botany

chaparral and botany both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chaparral	Yes	No	No	No
botany	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, botany is a hypernym of chaparral; that is, botany is a word with a broader meaning than chaparral:

Other hypernyms of chaparral include flora, vegetation.

chaparral (noun)	botany (noun)
dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes	the branch of biology that studies plants
	all the plant life in a particular region or period