groundcover vs botany

groundcover and botany both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
groundcover	Yes	No	No	No
botany	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, botany is a hypernym of groundcover; that is, botany is a word with a broader meaning than groundcover:

groundcover: low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow
botany: all the plant life in a particular region or period

Other hypernyms of groundcover include flora, vegetation.

groundcover (noun)	botany (noun)
small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor	the branch of biology that studies plants
low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow	all the plant life in a particular region or period