embayment vs body of water

embayment and body of water both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
embayment	Yes	No	No	No
body of water	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, body of water is a hypernym of embayment; that is, body of water is a word with a broader meaning than embayment:

embayment: an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
body of water: the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)

Other hypernyms of embayment include water.

embayment (noun)	body of water (noun)
an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf	the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)