cornelian cherry vs cornel

cornelian cherry and cornel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cornelian cherry	Yes	No	No	No
cornel	Yes	No	No	No

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

cornelian cherry: deciduous European shrub or small tree having bright red fruit
cornel: a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers

Other hypernyms of cornelian cherry include dogwood, dogwood tree.

cornelian cherry (noun)	cornel (noun)
deciduous European shrub or small tree having bright red fruit	a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers