meadow cranesbill vs cranesbill

meadow cranesbill and cranesbill both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
meadow cranesbill	Yes	No	No	No
cranesbill	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cranesbill is a hypernym of meadow cranesbill; that is, cranesbill is a word with a broader meaning than meadow cranesbill:

meadow cranesbill: tall perennial cranesbill with paired violet-blue axillary flowers; native to northern parts of Old World and naturalized in North America
cranesbill: any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium

Other hypernyms of meadow cranesbill include crane's bill.

meadow cranesbill (noun)	cranesbill (noun)
tall perennial cranesbill with paired violet-blue axillary flowers; native to northern parts of Old World and naturalized in North America	any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium