cooking apple vs apple

cooking apple and apple both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cooking apple	Yes	No	No	No
apple	Yes	No	No	No

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

cooking apple: an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc
apple: fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

cooking apple (noun)	apple (noun)
an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc	fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
	native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits