cornmeal vs meal

cornmeal and meal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cornmeal	Yes	No	No	No
meal	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, meal is a hypernym of cornmeal; that is, meal is a word with a broader meaning than cornmeal:

cornmeal: coarsely ground corn
meal: coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

cornmeal (noun)	meal (noun)
coarsely ground corn	the food served and eaten at one time
	coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
	any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times