cuneiform bone vs carpal

cuneiform bone and carpal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cuneiform bone	Yes	No	No	No
carpal	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, carpal is a hypernym of cuneiform bone; that is, carpal is a word with a broader meaning than cuneiform bone:

cuneiform bone: a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones
carpal: any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates

Other hypernyms of cuneiform bone include carpal bone, wrist bone.

cuneiform bone (noun)	carpal (noun)
a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones	any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates

cuneiform bone (adjective)	carpal (adjective)
	of or relating to the wrist