lemon cheese vs preserves

lemon cheese and preserves both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lemon cheese	Yes	No	No	No
preserves	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, preserves is a hypernym of lemon cheese; that is, preserves is a word with a broader meaning than lemon cheese:

lemon cheese: a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar
preserves: fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

Other hypernyms of lemon cheese include conserve, conserves, preserve.

lemon cheese (noun)	preserves (noun)
a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar	fruit preserved by cooking with sugar