german pancake vs flannel-cake

german pancake and flannel-cake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
german pancake	Yes	No	No	No
flannel-cake	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, flannel-cake is a hypernym of german pancake; that is, flannel-cake is a word with a broader meaning than german pancake:

german pancake: puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce
flannel-cake: a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Other hypernyms of german pancake include battercake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake.

german pancake (noun)	flannel-cake (noun)
puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce	a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle