hibiscus vs roselle

roselle vs hibiscus

hibiscus and roselle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hibiscus	Yes	No	No	No
roselle	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, roselle is a hyponym of hibiscus; that is, roselle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hibiscus:

hibiscus: any plant of the genus Hibiscus
roselle: East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

Other hyponyms of hibiscus include bimli, bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kanaf, kenaf, blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, Hibiscus heterophyllus, sorrel tree, common rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos, rose mallow, swamp mallow, swamp rose mallow, Confederate rose, Confederate rose mallow, cotton rose, Hibiscus mutabilis, China rose, Chinese hibiscus, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Rose of China, shoe black, shoeblack plant, Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, rozelle, sorrel, Hibiscus syriacus, rose of Sharon, balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau, black-eyed Susan, bladder ketmia, flower-of-an-hour, flowers-of-an-hour, Hibiscus trionum.

hibiscus (noun)	roselle (noun)
any plant of the genus Hibiscus	East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

Difference between hibiscus and roselle

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