danish pastry vs sweet roll

danish pastry and sweet roll both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
danish pastry	Yes	No	No	No
sweet roll	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sweet roll is a hypernym of danish pastry; that is, sweet roll is a word with a broader meaning than danish pastry:

danish pastry: light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese
sweet roll: any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze

Other hypernyms of danish pastry include coffee roll.

danish pastry (noun)	sweet roll (noun)
light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese	any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze